A CORRECTION.
rTo Tits EDITOR Of TEl "8rReTATO-R.'"} SIR,—May I point out what is, no doubt, a slip of the pen in the article on "Mr. Roosevelt and the American Pacilleists" (Spectator, September 25th), where the writer attributes the saying, "They make a solitude and call it peace," to Caractaeue ? It was not Caractacus, but Calgacus, whom Tacitus (Agricola, cap. 30) reports as having uttered this memorable saying. There is, however, a sentence equally noteworthy in the speech of Caraetacas before the Emperor Clandins (Taeittts, Annals,, X1T., 37)—viz., "Si yes omnibus imperitare vultis, sequitur ut omnes servitutera accipiant12" These brave words of Caractacus addressed to the Romans may with equal justice be used by ourselves and the rest of the civilized world to the Germans of the present clay.—I am, Sir, lac., 0. S. H.
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