"THE LIMITS OF PURE DEMOCRACY." ETo THE EDITOR or THE
" SPECTATOIL") Ste,—This admirable book by Mr.- Mello*, from which you gave Some very interesting extracts in your- issue of February 2nd, is• unfortunately, most 'unfortunately, beyond the reach of the masses.
If it is to do any real good, it ought to be widely distributed among the working classes. If an abridged edition, or a short compilation of some of the most " telling " and instructive parts, such as those set forth in. your reference to the publication, were dis- tributed at a small cost, or better still gratis, it would help to give light and knowledge to those who are at present entirely at the mercy of orators of their own class, whose wild statements, accompanied by wily arguments, are poisoning the minds of the people. Such publications, compiled so carefully and cleverly, and based on sound incontrovertible facts, lose their real value and altogether miss their mission, because they are not made directly available among the crowd chiefly concerned. I think it is the. business and the duty of those who can afford to buy and read such books foe pleasure, to see that they are distributed among those who would read them with profit, not only to them- selves, but to the nation, of which they comprise such a large
number.—I am, Sir, &c., W. STOWELL,. Cathedral Buildings, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
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