13 AUGUST 1904, Page 15

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "]

SIR,—Analysing my feelings as a small, dark, spare man of Celtic or Brythonic origin, I venture to remark that it is not only the manners of the travelling Anglo-Saxon which excite antipathy on the Continent. In me the sight of the gross- bodied, gluttonous, beef-and-beer-fed Englishman, with or without a red face, awakens repugnance just removed from loathing. St. John Chrysostom remarked that there was some reason for fatness in a pig, but none for it in a man. Of course, these gross people tell you that they cannot avoid it, and would grow fat on air. When such a man, possibly under forty years of age, gives his hat a tilt on to one side of his head, he becomes capable of any rudeness.—I am, Sir, &o.,