19 AUGUST 1911, Page 13

HEAT AND UNREST.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—On reading your review of "Half a Century in Paris" I was struck by the reference to the baking hot weather during the Revolution of 1830; the Bastile was also stormed on a hot July day in 1789. The connexion of these two events with the large amount of unrest that is prevalent here at the present time in England under a tropical sun makes one ask the question as to whether there can be any connexion be- tween heat waves and political unrest.—I am, Sir, &c.,

H. P.

P.S.—The highest temperature recorded in England is not 100 degs. at Greenwich, but 101 degs. at Alton, Hampshire, is July, 1881.