25 JUNE 1921, Page 13

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPBCTATOR."]

Sta,—Is not the answer to Colonel Melville's question this? The small, swarthy men met with in the Highlands and in parts of Ireland and. Wales are not of Celtic origin at all, but of Iberian, the dark Mediterranean race that inhabited there islands for thousands of years before the Celts appeared on the scene. That, I think, was the opinion of Sir John Rhys and of Professor Huxley (see Huxley's Essay on British Ethnology). The Celts imposed their language on the conquered Iberians, and to the invading Saxons they all appeared to be Celts.—I