25 MARCH 1938, Page 26

" THE BUCCANEER "

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Basil Wright in his review of The Buccaneer (which he doesn't like) speaks of " the seceding Yankees." Seceding Yankees, forsooth !

He evidently thought the picture was about the War of Independence, his brain not being overburdened with a super- fluity of American history. He should do penance and see the picture a second time, clad in white and holding a lighted candle. He would then perhaps discover that the picture was about the War of 1812.

As for Yankee, as Yankee is a New Englander, and Jackson was so obviously drawn as a Southerner, that the term is inappropriate, even as a flippancy.—Yours faithfully,

R. I. WALKDEN.

280 Desaulriers Blod, St. Lambert, P.Q., Canada.