GERMAN CULTURE.
[To TIER EDITOR OF TEl "SPECTATOR"] SIR,—The difficulty of reconciling " culture" in the English sense with war in the German manner must indeed have troubled many an average Briton. And now I, an average Briton, find my trouble aggravated. Your correspondent Mr. Fitz-James Molony writes: " German culture means German management and nothing else" (Spectator, November 14th). Yet in Germany and the Next War (p. 74) General von Bern- hardi quotes with approval the following from Treitschke "Depth of conviction, idealism, universality, the power to look beyond the limits of a finite existence, to sympathize with all that is human, to traverse the realm of ideas in companionship with the noblest of all nations and ages—this has been at all times the German characteristic ; this has been extolled as the prerogative of German culture."
I am, Sir, no philologist, and of English my knowledge is so limited that I cannot even see how to include all the above in the one phrase "management and nothing else."—I am, Sir,
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