1 JANUARY 1910, Page 24

AS OTHERS SEE US.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1

Sin,—Your reviewer, in dealing with a most suggestive book, " Das kranke England," in the Spectator of Decem- ber 18th, 1909, seems to me to lay too little stress on the fact that it is from beginning to end an earnest plea for the systematic training towards efficiency which is so completely lacking in England. The defects of method and presentation in the book are obvious, and the object of publishing it in Germany is by no means clear ; but the author should, in my opinion, be bailed as a valuable ally by every advocate of "a new way of life."—I am, Sir, &c., T. G. MARTIN.