[To THE EDITOR Or TRY " SPROTATOR.1 SIR,—The letter of
Mr. Brodribb in the Spectator of June 14th, not to mention your own leaders and editorial notices as to German hostility to this country, should be read and pondered by all thinking Englishmen. It has been my good, or bad, fortune to come into contact with many cultivated Germans, both as a student at a German University and as a worker in an institution which attracts men from all parts of that country. I can heartily endorse all your own and Mr. Brod- ribb's words as to the envy and hatred that exist in the minds of the great German middle class, daily becoming a. more potent factor in German politick; against us as a nation,—envy because, notwithstanding what they are pleased to call our de- fective methods of education, we have from time to time pro- duced the greatest intelligences in the domain of politics, literature, and science : hatred that the Anglo-Saxon people are at present masters of so great a portion of the inhabitable world. As Mr. Brodribb aptly points out, the Schciden- freude so universal throughout Germany during the early disasters of the war in South Africa will for a time be less seen and heard. But let us not think that for this reason it will cease to exist. Still less must we be deceived by any apparent manifestation of goodwill towards us. Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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