22 FEBRUARY 1908, Page 15

DISRAELI'S BORROWINGS.

150 THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] an interesting letter on Disraeli's borrowings that appeared in the Spectator of December 280,1907, it is stated : "Disraeli's assertion that only those nations that behaved well to the Jews prospered had been made long before by Frederick the Great." No doubt both those sagacious men traced in history the fulfilment of the promise contained in Psalm cxxii. 6 : " Pray for the peace of Jerusalem : they shall prosper that love thee."—I am, Sir, &c.,