THE PARIS COMMUNE OF 1871.
(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. Charles Clement Walker, says :— " Up to the present time, I think there is not one account [of the outbreak of the Commune], as viewed from the inside, by those who took part in it." This statement is not quite correct. During a residence of some months in Paris this summer, I made a large collection of accounts of the Commune and its doings, and these are mostly by friends of the Versailles Government, whether they were in or out of Paris during the second siege. But in 1871, Messrs. Chapman and Hall published .1 Histoire de la Commune de Paris,' par P. Vesinico, ex-Membre et Secretaire de la Commune, et Redacteur-en-Chef du Journal Offieiel. Lon- don. Pp. 420." The writer promises a second book, but I know not if it has ever appeared. The " Histoire " is complete in itself, bringing down the narrative to the final crushing of the
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