THE HOME RULE BILL.
[To Tax EDITOR OP THY "SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—Por many years I have taken your paper, and in many ways profited by the ideas and opinions therein expressed, but I am pained at the tone, &e., you take up in re the new Homo Rule Bill. Not that I sin entirely in favour of such legislation, but am just enough to know that two opinions may prevail, and that the other side is not to be silenced with mere abuse or criticism of the kind of your article. The other side can produce just as many arguments for as you endeavour to do against the scheme. The ordinary student naturally is bewildered amidst all this chorus of counter-shouting 1 Asquith's Bill is, as everybody anticipated, very mild, and so hedged in on all sides by safeguards, &c., that it is really little more than a "glorified County Council" that he is willing to give the Irish. Instead of using such strong language and such sledge-hammers about the Govern- ment's wickedness, &c., it would have been highly instructive if you had given some counter-proposals. Of course you know full well what Goethe says about criticism and what it
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