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Paris Commune of 1871, says that "England was the cradle

of the movement which issued in the Commune, and in 1871 was its base." May I ask on what historical grounds this

remarkable statement rests P—I am, Sir, &c., C. L. D.

[Our reviewer writes : "It should have been made clear that the statement to which C. L. D.' refers was Sir Thomas Fraser's, and not the reviewer's. His evidence will be found in chap. vi. of the book."—En. Spectator.]