26 JANUARY 1918, Page 17

" SCHADENFREITDE."

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " 6PECT1TOR."] Srs,—The writer of the article The Government of Belgium " by Germany " has apparently forgotten the Aristotelian &Ivo/mimic/a. The word appears to bear in Greek the exact significance of the German Schadenfrende—pleasure in the misfortunes of others.—