I should not trouble you with this note, however, except for the opportunity it gives me of apologising for an injustice to Sir Herbert Maxwell which I committed in the article I wrote in the CORNHILL. I represented him as saying the Duke ‘must have been inexpressibly bored by the correspondence,’ and the words are in inverted commas, giving the reader the impression these were the exact words Sir Herbert Maxwell used. I apologise for those unfortunate inverted commas. The words they seem to quote were not the precise words Sir Herbert Maxwell used in his ‘Life of Wellington,’ and they do not accurately convey his meaning. ‘The letters,’ he says, ‘_some might think_ were of the very kind to bore the Duke, whose religion was of a somewhat conventional kind.’ But Sir Herbert Maxwell does not say that that was his personal opinion. Yours truly, W. H. FITCHETT. NOTE.--In her article, ‘Dublin Days: the Rising,’ which appeared in my July number, Mrs. Hamilton Norway, on page 51, repeats the current story that Messrs. Jacob were ready to let the military blow up their biscuit factory, for they would never make another biscuit in Ireland. In justice to Messrs. Jacob, let me add that I have since learnt on the one unimpeachable authority that this story, however picturesque, is wholly apocryphal. THE EDITOR. Transcriber’s Note: This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged unless indicated below. Misspelled words were not corrected. Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like this_. Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the chapter. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, partially printed letters and punctuation or punctuation used as letters, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate letters at line endings or page breaks and excess single quote marks were removed. Missing word added: ... a devil [of] suspicion ... Word changed: ... except that [if] it afforded ...