6 NOVEMBER 1915, Page 23

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

AN ENGLISHMAN PHILOSOPHIZES.

(To TEM EDITOR or TIM " SPROTITOII."1 BM—Whoever wrote that article signed " D." on an English- man's philosophy in the trenches has, in my judgment, done a real service to humanity. After forty years of writing on the philosophy of civilization of the world, of psychology, and of things in general, I have never struck the nail on the head like this man in all my eight or ten volumes. Something of the same sort I had thought of sending as an article to a news- paper, but he has quite taken the wind out of my sails.—I am, [If Dr. Beattie Crozier has not taken first place in inter- preting an Englishman's philosophy, be certainly takes it in generous and unselfish letter-writing.—En. Spectator.]