EMILE ZOLA.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1
Sin,—May I add to your remarks on M. Zola in the Spectator of October 4th by citing some words of Macaulay on Voltaire ?
They seem to suggest a parallel :— " The real strength of Voltaire and his compeers lay in the
truth which was mingled with their errors They were men who with all their faults, moral and intellectual ------ felt their blood boil at the sight of cruelty and injustice ...... and who on many signal occasions placed themselves gallantly between the powerful and the oppressed When a brave officer, borne down by public injustice, was dragged, with a gag in his mouth, to die on the Place de Greve, a voice instantly went forth from the banks of Lake Leman, which made itself heard from Moscow to Cadiz, and which sentenced the unjust judges to the contempt and detestation of all Europe They were ready to encounter principalities and powers in the cause of justice, mercy, and toleration."—(Macaulay's Essay on Rankei "History of the Popes.") —I am, Sir, &c., St. Jude's Vicarage, Whitechapel, E. E. C. CARTER.
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