26 OCTOBER 1918, Page 16

THE MOST ELOQUENT VOICE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")

Sin,—Matthew Arnold began his addresfl on Milton—delivered in lit, Margaret's Church, Westminster, February lath, 1888, and subsequently printed in the second series of Essays in Criticism— with these words : " The most eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against ' the Anglo-Saxon contagion.' " Can you, Sir, or one of your readers, kindly tell me to whom he was referring P—I am, Sir, &c., But we cannot trace _the words in; Emerson, and they seem unlikely. We have also heard it said that.the reference was to Doethe.—ED. Spectator.)