BEAVER HATS

Allow me to say a few words in reply to your correspondent "GASTROS." His quotation from Fairholt (*Costume in England*), who cites Stubbes's *Anatomy of Abuses* as the earliest authority for the use of beaver hats in England, is not a satisfactory reply to my query; inasmuch as I am aware that beaver hats were occasionally worn by great people in this country some centuries before Stubbes was born. For example, Henry III. possessed "unum capellum de Bevre cum apparatu auri et lapidibus preciosis;" as appears from the "Wardrobe Account," of the 55th year of his reign. I have, therefore, still…