[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Si,—Mr. Edward Price Bell, in his splendid article on European-American relations in your issue of September 23rd, implies, in discussing the alleged interview of Mr. Kipling, that although Mr. Kipling denies that he made any such state- ments, still they were the sort of things Mr. Kipling might have said. Far be it from me to deny this inference, but it does seem that with a little more of the kind of thoughtfulness Mr. Bell himself advocates, he might have omitted his bitter allegations against Mr. Kipling. Surely the blame devolves upon Mrs. Clare Sheridan, the author of the "interview." Against her thoughtlessnas—to say the least—criticism might justly have been levelled. While I hate even to murmur it under my breath, so much am I in sympathy with Mr. Bell's general thesis, I feel in this slight instance we can rightly whisper, "Physician, heal thyself."—I am, Sir, &c.,
Ammucnars.
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