1 APRIL 1899, Page 18

ZOROASTER.

[To Tax EDITOR OF rue " SPRCTATOR."] Sin,—In reviewing Professor Jackson's book on Zoroaster in a recent number of the Spectator, you censured the author for failing to discuss the religious teachings of Zoroaster, and characterised him as a scholar rather than a philosopher. It is only fair to Professor Jackson to say that his aim in writing his " Zoroaster" was purely biographical, and that he intends treating of Zoroastrianism in another volume. He says (p. 12): " The question of his (Zoroaster's) beliefs, teaching, and philosophy, can be dealt with only incidentally, as this is reserved for treatment in another work."—I am,