25 JANUARY 1890, Page 14

THE CULTUS OF AMERICAN MILLIONAIRES. pro THE EDITOR OF THE

" SPECTAT0R."1 Sric,—The tendency of the American people, discussed in your atticle on "The American Worship of Millionaires," seems to have struck deep roots. In a recent criticism on English novels in Harper's Magazine, in the course of some remarks on jane Austen, the writer asserts that she described the bourgeoisie,—a most unfounded assertion, and one for which Miss Ansten and her well-born, if often poor heroines, would have felt a just disdain. The inference is that among a people whose aristocracy is one of wealth, persons of moderate means constitute the bourgeoisie, and the meanings of words are wrested to meet this state of things.—I am, Sir, &c.,

A NATIVE OF STAFFORDSHIRE.