FORTY-FIVE YEARS SINCE.
[To ME EDITOR 07 THR " SPECTATOR:1 Sia,—Last week you reprinted a passage from what you rightly call " an extraordinarily prescient article" by the late Mr. Meredith Townsend which appeared in the Spectator for March 25th, 1871. You may care to insert, by way of a pendant and parallel, the following passage from a sermon preached on the following day—March 28th, 1871—by the late Canon Liddon on "The Sinlessness of Jesus Christ" and re- published in his PassionlideSernunta: "There is ground for the appre- hension lest Frederick the Great—the highest embodiment, perhaps, in modern Europe, of successful brutality—whose memory was for a while buried at Jena, but who has risen in his successors with greater splendour than before, should again become the ideal Monarch of North
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