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' 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. Ranger, 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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