23 AUGUST 1873, Page 15

(TO THE EDITOR OF TIIR "SPECTATOR.")

SIR,—In the notice of Mr. Stirling's translation of the "Sophisms Economiques " of Frtideric Bastiat, in your last number, you say you do not remember to have seen before a translation of the whole work. The late G. R. Porter, author of "The Progress of the Nation," published a translation in 1849. Simm and Macin- tyre, Belfast, were, I think, the publishers.—I am, Sir, &c., J. S.