3 JUNE 1922, Page 12

HENRY JAMES ON IRELAND.

[To TIM EDITOZ or THE " SPEMATOR."]

Sia,—In the Letters of Henry James there is a letter to his brother, written in 1886, on the Irish question, which may interest your readers. It is ae follows :—

" I do not believe much in the Irish, and I believe still lees in the disruption of the British Empire, but I do not see how the management of their own affairs can be kept away from them, or why it should. I cannot but think that as they are a poor lot with great intrinsic sources of weakness, their power to injure and annoy England (if they were to get their own Parliament) would be considerably less than is assumed."

Montreal, May 22nd.