PROFESSOR DELBRUCK AND ENGLAND.
[To TEE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—May I, one of Professor Delbriick's pupils, be allowed a few lines in reference to the letter appearing over the signa- ture " Vigilans sed 2Equus" in the Spectator of December 20th P It would obviously be improper for a matriculated student to criticise his professors in a foreign journal. I therefore refrain from saying anything of Professors Schmoller and Schiemann ; but your correspondent's letter might give the impression that Professor Delbriick is one of the German England-haters. / have been his pupil for more than two years, and I can assure you that in his large heart there is no room for hate, except hatred of humbug and untruth. On more than one occasion have I heard him warn a class of some two hundred students against lending credence to the calumnies of the German Press in reference to English " brutality " in South Africa. To call Professor Delbriick Anglophil would be as untrue as to attribute to him a sense- less and small-minded hatred of England ; but in his lofty and fascinating character love of truth and the courage with which he ever bears witness to the truth are most strikingly apparent.—I am, Sir, &c.,
Berlinerstrasse,116, Charlottenburg. J. D. DRUMMOND.
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