THE MACEDONIAN QUESTION. •
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Having both read and reviewed Dr. Nicolaides's historico,political treatise on the Macedonian question, I was too well acquainted with his views to suppose that he believed Macedonia to be entirely peopled by Greeks. I merely alluded to him as an example of the jealousy with which writers of one Balkan nationality regard the claims of other Balkan races. He has what Mr. Herbert Spencer would call " the patriotic bias," just as the Bulgarian and Servian apologists have, and his able and interesting brochure, which puts forward the Greek case, is marked by that antipathy towards the Bulgarians which now, as in 1899 when he wrote, is the keynote of the Greek Press in dealing with this ques- tion. No one admires more than myself the many attractive qualities of the Greeks,—their love of education, their great intelligence, and their warm patriotism. It is, however, un- fortunate that the mutual animosities of the various Christian peoples of the Balkan Peninsula should retard the settlement of a question which has so long called for solution.—I am, Sir, &o., W. MILLER. 10 Cheyne Gardens, Chelsea, S.W.
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