21 JUNE 1902, Page 14

IS FRANCE RADICAL

[TO THE EDITOR OF THR "SPECTLTOR.1

SIR,—" Neque Tyrannum, neque Libertatem pati possunt," was Caesar's dictum as to the Gauls. If this is the fact to-day, does that answer your question "Is France Radical?" If France is devoted to Caesarism (as stated in your review of Mr. Haseall's book, "The French People," in the Spectator of

ne 14th) and yet endures a Republic, does Caesar's assertion

explain Lhe paradox P-1 am, Sir, &c., H. J. S.