10 JULY 1936, Page 22

IS THE LAW A HASS [To the Editor of THE

SPECTATOR.]

SIR,—In my submission, as Barrister in his more courteous mood would say, the case is not so simple as he suggests. The " silencer " does not silence ; there remains a great noise ; conscious of this the cyclist does not sound the horn which the law compels him to carry. Still I admit I may be the hass, which is clearly impossible in a barrister.—Yours, &c., J.P.