25 MARCH 1899, Page 14

CLERICAL ANTI-SEMITISM IN. FRANCE. f To TILE EDITOR 01 THE

"srscir.....Tos."3 Srn,—May I point out in regard to the letter of your corre- spondent, Mr. Kuhn, that if the book "Fleurs de l'Histoire," which contains such disgraceful attacks upon the Jews, s prohibited from being used in Roman Catholic schools in France by the mandate of the French Educational Depart- meat, that only proves how much more enlightened the Government which is laic and secular is than the Hierarchy which gives its formal approbation to such a work? I fear, however, that these schools are not so strictly supervised as Mr. Kuhn supposes ; and this much I know, that this particular book has many times been given away by the clergy as a prize to successful pupils.—