We propose in future, at all events whenever it may
be necessary, to publish extracts from sonic of our correspondents' letters instead of publishing the letters in full. We have, in fact, made a start this week. We regret being compelled to do this, because we fully admit that a letter, just as the correspondent wrote it from beginning to end, is a more living thing. Unfortu- nately considerations of space are imperative. We receive hundreds of letters every week and naturally what we can publish is only a selection. We try to make that selection as varied and as representative as possible. We dislike very much rejecting letters which arc both interesting and ably expressed, simply because there is no room for them. In all the circumstances, therefore, we hope that most of our correspondents would rather have portions of their letters published than nothing at all.
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