(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Arising out of
Mr. Bell's articles on "How It Strikes an American," may I bring before your readers the remark of an ordinary, and therefore perhaps typical, American from the Middle West, whom I happened to meet in the train? After discussing things in the Near East he put his hand on my knee and said impressively, "There is one thing worth remembering : the three thousand-mile frontier between us and the British Empire, and not a man or a gun anywhere on the whole length of it." I ventured to reply, "Yes, we shall never fight with you. We would rather suffer wrong." I think this is so, for I am sure we should feel that the great American nation would of themselves repair any wrong which in haste or ignorance they might have done.—I am, Sir, &c.,
Bidford House, Leamington.
HERBERT W. II. GREEN.
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