THE STRENGTH OF THE HAPSBURGS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In his criticism of your interesting article on the above subject, Professor Freeman states as his opinion that Austria is not, and that her great Eastern neighbour is, a "national Power." The judgment of another eminent historian on this latter point may be of interest to some of your readers. Pro- fessor Seeley (in his "Expansion of England," p. 76) writes of "the great conglomeration of Slaves, Germans, Tnrcomans, and Armenians, of Greek Christians, Catholics, Protestants, Mussulmans, and Buddhists, which we call Russia." It may be added, that the Germans are the only intelligent and educated body of citizens in the Empire, that the Poles are especially formidable as soldiers, and that history teaches us that religious are at least as serious a barrier as racial differences, to anything like real unity.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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