" FREDERIC THE GREAT AND KAISER JOSEPH."
[To Tax Nome or eat "SPECT,7014.] Sim—In the very courteous notice which you gave last week to my book on Frederic the Great and Kaiser .Toseph, I notice two points on which the reader might be misled.
(1) The reviewer points out several analogies between Prussian policy under Frederic the Great and to-day. He does not, however, state that it is made clear in my preface that my book wag not written for the present occasion, but was practically complete nearly three years ago, and was in large part written in the Royal Library at Berlin, at a time when I was under deep obligations to German scholarship. I only mention these facts because historians seem to me at present much too eager to indulge in facile and dangerous analogies between foreign polities of to-day and of the historic past.
(2) The reviewer speaks of Lord Malmeebnry's sketch of Frederic's character as being "reprinted." I am at present at a distance from books, bat when I was not I could find no trace of its ever having been printed--I am, Sir, &c., HAROLD TEMPERLEY.
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