[To THE ED/TOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.1 notice that in your
leading article under the above heading in the Spectator of May 28th you make the state- ment, in support of the theory of the probability of an internal revolution in Russia., that the last Russian harvest was a poor one. This statement is, of course, absolutely inaccurate, the fact being that both the wheat and barley crops were tLe largest ever grown in the history of the country, and that tba
total of the four great crops of wheat, rye, barley, and oats reached the enormous figure of three hundred and nine million quarters, being no less than twenty-seven million quarters in excess of the average of the previous four years. I fear that you have been misled by an absurd paragraph which went the round of the London papers last November, and which con- tained the statement that, owing to the very poor harvest in Russia, it was expected that an importation of wheat would
[The statement dealt with by our correspondent was not made on our own responsibility, but was quoted, as will be seen by a reference to the article, from the Standard of Thursday, May 26th.—ED. Spectator.]
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