Hudson objected to Drummond's speaking of Francis Parkman's style as "second rate poetical prose". An article in the London Tablet of March 26th criticizing "A Troubled Heart" may help Hudson to understand Drummond's point of view. The words he used in a lecture on the French element were "his second rate poetical prose seems to have damaged him in England". Now a high-toned English paper passes a severer judgement on a work which is admired on this side of the water. The difference between England and American critics appears in both Charles Warren Stoddard, and Parkman. During the time Drummond spent in England among unprejudiced men of culture, he never heard Parkman's name mentioned as a first class writer. Drummond thought it might soften the blow which the Tablet reviewer inflicted on Hudson, who knows the sincerity of Stoddard. The Catholic newspaper, the Northwest Review has passed into the hands of an able convert from Anglicanism, N.D. Beck :: X-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.