[To TEE EDITOR. OP THE "SPECTATOR." J
SIR,—Will you allow me to thank you heartily for your article on " The Swiss," in which you correct some of the exaggerated statements in Miss Sellers's article in this month's Cornhill Magazine ? I have known many Swiss people intimately for more than twenty-four years, and have lived for more than eight years in the Canton of Neuchatel. As master in three schools in the place till quite recently, I have had abundant opportunities for getting to know the people of at least this Canton. They have their faults, as we all have, but I should like to be allowed to add my protest against the pleading of this advocalus diaboli. What good does the author think she has done by writing in this way of a people many of whom received her most kindly, and did not grudge her their time to give her all the information she needed ?—I am, Sir, &e., G. A. BIRNEMANN, British Chaplain at Neuchattel. Chateau de Beauregard, Serrieres, near Neuchatel, Switzerland.
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