THE " PROPERTIES " AND " ACCIDENTS " OF RECORDITES.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—In reference to a placard maligning Mr. Worms as a Jew, you say that it looks more like the malignity of a Recordite than the vulgar cunning of even the most unworthy Liberal. This admits that a Liberal may be vulgar, cunning, and unworthy, but seems to imply that a Recordite must be malignant, the worst epithet in the English language. I tried to soften the thing by supposing that some Recordites might be malignant, like some fevers, and that a malignant Recordite was simply compared with a most unworthy Liberal; but the sentence, carefully weighed, does not mean this, but rather, that while low cunning is a separable accident as to a Liberal, malignity is inseparable from a Recordite.
The editor and readers of the Record, with all their faults,—we have our faults, by all means tell us of them,—do not forget that "Salvation is of the Jews."—I am, Sir, &c.,
A READER OF TIIE " SPECTATOR " AND THE "RECORD."
[Our correspondent is entirely mistaken, and so unnecessarily so, that we fear he wished to interpret our sentence as he does. We respect and admire many Recordites ; but "the malignity of a Recordite" is a special kind of malignity, though multitudes of Recordites areincapable of any malignity whatever.—ED. Spectator.]
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