y "DARKEST ENGLAND" SCHEME. 305 



' give away ' the property, simply because there is 

 no one who has any right to prevent his doing so. 



"ERNEST HATTON." 



It is probably my want of legal knowledge 

 which prevents me from appreciating the value of 

 the professed corrections of Mr. Hatton's opinion 

 contained in the letters of Messrs. Kanger, Burton, 

 and Matthews, " Times/' January 28th and 29th, 

 1891. 



The note on page 301 refers to a correspond- 

 ence, incomplete at the time fixed for the publica- 

 tion of my pamphlet, the nature of which is suffi- 

 ciently indicated by the subjoined extracts from 

 Mr. Stead's letter in the " Times " of January 

 20th, and from my reply in the " Times " of Janu- 

 ary 24th. Referring to the paragraphs numbered 

 1, 2, at the end of my letter XI., Mr. Stead says: 



" On reading this, I at once wrote to Professor 

 Huxley, stating that, as he had mentioned my 

 name, I was justified in intervening to explain 

 that, so far as the second count in his indictment 

 went for the Eagle dispute is no concern of mine 

 he had been misled by an error in the reports 

 of the case which appeared in the daily papers 

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