[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."'
should like to thank you in my own name, and in the name of many others, for the stand you are taking in regard to the matter of child murder, and the many kindred subjects which, we are disconcerted to find, are becoming. public questions. I believe the great silences are with us, but the noise is decidedly disquieting. When, for philosophical reasons, the responsibility of fatherhood is destroyed by the "endowment of motherhood," and the primal instinct of a woman to protect her child, even at her own inconvenience, is eradicated, it seems we may expect the beginning of the millennium! Perhaps we would not need to fear the party, of which these things are the hope, for social regeneration, if the growing desire for pleasure and ease at all costs were not a befouling our literature and corrupting at its roots . that higher sense of life which has made, and still makes, a man and woman love children more than dress and dinner-parties, and more than "beer and skittles."—I am, Sir, &c., EDITH H. Scorr.
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