15 AUGUST 1931, Page 18

"ADVICE TO AN EDITOR" [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

SIR,--I trust that you will not allow yourself to be influenced by the cynical verse of Jan Struther. Without in any way detracting from the excellence of the rest of the paper, those pages which your readers write for you remain One of the most interesting features of the Spectator. If only Fleet Street peers would seek to emulate you in this respect instead of retailing every new " romance " of Hollywood divorcees

and wasting space and money on the autobiographies and opinions of murderers, crooks, actresses, footballers, pseudo- statesmen and other journalist " blacklegs " from the ranks of both peerage and Labour Party !—I am, Sir, &c.,