[To THE EDITOR OF THE " sPEcTeros."]
SIR,—The following paragraph from the leading article in last Sunday's Frankfurter Zeitung may interest English readers, summing up the gist of an exceedingly judicious and ably written study of the Referendum :—
" It is not easy to see aright into the affairs of a foreign land, and we would therefore be unwilling to tender our advice to the Liberals. Yet are we unable to view in the Referendum an institution fitted alone to the use of small States, either in the present or the future. Rather do we see therein an evolution of the Constitutional form as a whole, and in this our opinion is also further strengthened by the fact that the attempt that was made to introduce it into France and Belgium has been actually achieved in Switzerland and the United States, thus making it an integral part of the Constitution of States where the repre- sentative system has attaineda high pitch of development. Along- side of the foregoing England now ranges herself as the result of a similar historical process of evolution."
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