5 NOVEMBER 1910, Page 16

MR. W. S. LILLY AND ABSOLUTE MONARCHY.

[TO THE EDITOR OP TEl "SPECTATOR."]

SID,—In an article on Balzao published in your issue of the 29th ult. it is stated that "Mr. W. S. Lilly exhorts

Republican France to return to an absolute Monarchy." I shall be obliged if you will allow me to contradict that statement. I am very far from being a votary of absolute Monarchy, and have never exhorted France or any other country to return to it.—I am, Sir, &c.,

The Athenwum, Pall Mall, S. W. W. S. LILLY.