TH11 ",ENGLISH Rgvisw " Ann ins "SPECTATOR."

We, the undersigned, have read the article in the Spectator of June 10th attacking the English Review. We can see nothing in the article but a simple act of persecution. A well-known writer in the English Review has expressed, not editorially, but over his own signature and on his own responsibility, an opinion which is beyond all question a very widespread opinion, not only among so-called men of the world, but among medical men and serious moralists. It is an opinion which shocked some of us precisely as some of the Spectator's opinions shock others of us and shock the Editor of the English Review. But its suppression can be justified only by arguments which would equally justify the suppression of every organ of advanced . or reactionary thought in Europe, and could easily be pushed for party or sectarian purposes to the destruction of the Liberty of the Press. Under these circumstances, without in any way committing ourselves as to the merits of the two journals or the validity of the views with which they are identified, we feel bound to protest against the attempt of the Spectator to annul the compact of tolerance upon which the main- tenance of the highest literature and the best journalism depends for its very existence.

THOMAS HARDY MA1JRICE HEWLETT, BERNARD SHAW W. B. YEATS ARNOLD BENNETT R. B. CUNNINGHAKE GRAHAM

H. G. WELLS GEORGE MOORE JOHN GALSWORTHY HENRY ARTHUR JONES WILLIAM SOMERSETHAUGHAII FILSON YOUNG HERBERT TRENCH R. A. SCOTT-JAMES

W. H. DAVIES ROBERT BOSS EDEN PEITAPOTTS Cl. HALDANE MACFALL

W. J. LOCKE D. H. L AVVRENCE

FORD MADOX HUEFFER W. L. GEORGE T. STURGE MOORE FREDERICK NPT EN

MAY SINCLAIR HOLBROOK JACKSON

FRANCIS GRLERSON HUGH WALPOLE

H. GRANVILLE BARIcRE EDGAR JEPSON VIOLET HUNT MORLEY ROBERTS

SIDNEY LOW CHARLES MARRIOTT

RICHARD WHITEING J. STUART HAY

J. FORBES-ROBERTSON W. H. KOEBEL G. S. STREET G. H. MAD%

JOHN M. ROBERTSON, M.P. DARRELL FIGGIS A. NEIL LYONS J. E. EVANS-JACKSON EDWARD THOMAS ALFRED STEAD

W. ROIMENSTEIN YOSHIO MARKIN° EDWARD HUTTON E. S. P. HA.YNES • Mr. Maurice Hewlett signs the Protest with the following reserving clause:—" I agree with and join in the protest against the Spectator's article with this modification of its terms, that I do not suppose it to have been an act of persecution. I regard it as having been inspired by that smug confidence in one's own opinion and conviction of its importance to the world at large which are still, as they have always been, common to all vulgar natures. The

Spectator is not malevolent ; it is a prig." .

[We cannot say that we find the list impressive.—En. Spectator.]