My last letter informed you to what extent I could meet your wishes. Now that, without regard to my reply, you simply ask for the authorisation to print my article in a pamphlet which you propose to publish, I can only refer you to the person who has the power to dispose of the copyright. KUYPER. I was under the impression that I had acted in accordance with the reply of Dr. Kuyper, who in his letter, March 28th, wrote: "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 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.