_Hon. Thomas E. Watson, New York._
DEAR SIR: Every month your Magazine grows better and your
editorials are great in their unborrowed simplicity, power and
naturalness, and in their humble consciousness of truth and
right.
(1) _But how do you manage to call Napoleon a Democrat?_ I
reverence the word Democrat, it is my religion as well as
my politics, and I don’t like to hear such an unquestioned
authority as you call him a Democrat. It will be an interesting
article, I think, if you answer my objection.
(2) In an answer to a correspondent in regard to the best
English histories _you omit the favorite_—my favorite—and I
think the best—John Richard Green’s _Shorter History of the
English People_. _Why did you omit it?_ Another interesting
article.
(3) I can’t understand what you mean by saying that the “cry
of the people ground down by their masters, was what brought
Napoleon back from Elba.” I have read your history of Napoleon,
too. _Was it not solely his ambition, and he saw in the
disaffection of the people a chance to swell his armies?_
Let me congratulate you on Clarence Darrow’s story. It has the
element that made Burns and Wordsworth.
Please accept my congratulations. Wishing you a Merry Christmas
and you and your Magazine a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
Yours very truly,
⸺ ⸺.