WALTER GREEN'WAY.
(To THE Emma or ran " SPECTATOR."] Sot,—The case of Walter Greenway, "Hero and Spy," had almost faded from memory when your publication of September 15th came to hand (two days ago) with a reminder in the shape of a letter from Mr. Holmes. In the reading of this man's strange doings, the one point that made me hesitate to accept unquestion- ingly Mr. Holmes's account was that where we are told Greenway once no ably noted the part of a German officer—I believe it was in Baghdad—that he failed to arouse suspicion among' the company he was in, in spite of the fact that there were German officers actually in that company. I believi my memory is•good on that point. If that is so, how could a man like Greenway obtain a sufficient knowledge of the German language to do what he is supposed to have done P If he could pick up first-class German in Persia, Greenway was even a more remarkable character than is claimed for him. I expected some one at home to seize on this point, in which case I should have got the infor- mation desired without my having to address you from this great
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