In his tribute to Sir John Rankine Brown. "D.M.S." makes the following statement: "He had begun by being a devotee of Rome and ended with an abiding love of Greece. For myself, I can see no greater indication of intellectual progress than this." I wonder if your contributor would care to give a reasoned explanation of this categorical statement. In particular, I should like to know whether he refers to the Rome of the Scipionic Circle, of Caesar and Cicero, of Augustus, or of the Antonines, and to the Greece of Homer, of Lycurgus, of Pericles, or of Alexander. If he thinks that, from all these and innumerable other phrases, he can extract the quintessence of "national characters," the attempt is certainly interesting, but must be set out at greater length than the sweeping judgment I have quoted.