As I shall be in Paris before long I will ask him for it should your polemics seem to me to require a reply." But since Mr.Kuyper withdrew from the correspondence I wrote the following letter to Mr.Brunetiere, Editor of the _Revue des Deux Mondes_: _April 13th, 1900._ TO THE EDITOR, SIR, In the _Revue des Deux Mondes_, February 1st, an article was published by Dr.Kuyper under the title of "La Crise Sud-Africaine." I have published a criticism upon it in _Le Siecle;_ and in order that both sides of the question may be presented to the reader, I have asked Dr.Kuyper's authorisation to reproduce his article in a pamphlet in which I purpose to collect my own.
On March 28th, Dr.Kuyper wrote me: "The copyright of my article belongs to the editor of the _Revue des Deux Mondes_, without whose permission I can do nothing.

As I shall be in Paris before long I will ask him for it, should your polemic attack seem to me to require a reply." To-day Dr.Kuyper writes to me from the Grand Hotel, Paris: "I can only refer you to the person who has the power to dispose of the copyright." Since I am asked by Dr.Kuyper to make the request which he had undertaken to make himself, I will do so.

I have the honour to ask you for the authorisation to publish Dr.Kuyper's article which appeared in the _Revue des Deux Mondes_ under the title of "La Crise Sud-Africaine," and to inform me of your conditions for the reproduction.
YVES GUYOT.
IV.

M.BRUNETIERE'S REFUSAL.
The next day I received the following from M.Brunetiere: PARIS, _April 14th, 1900._ SIR, You ask me for the authorisation to publish in a pamphlet Dr.
Kuyper's article which appeared in the _Revue des Deux Mondes_, under the title of "La Crise Sud-Africaine." I hasten to refuse you the authorisation.
I am, Sir, etc., F.BRUNETIERE.
In this reply I trace M.Brunetiere's habitual courtesy.

If I do not thank him for his refusal, I yet thank him for the promptness with which it was signified by him.
It had been my desire to enable the reading public to judge for themselves the value of the arguments put forward by Dr.Kuyper and myself; but it was evidently M.Brunetiere's wish that Dr.Kuyper's article should be known only to the readers of the _Revue des Deux Mondes_, and that they should remain ignorant of my reply.