16 APRIL 1910, Page 14

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "]

have been reading the article on Lady McLaren's "The Women's Charter" in the Spectator of March 26th Never in a fairly long life have I read any article written in a more bitter spirit. Never have I seen a more determined effort to make white black. Does the writer call himself a gentleman? With regard to the murder of her illegitimate child while in an indescribable state of mind, Lady McLaren's suggestions are those of a Christian woman who kas every sympathy for the poor victims of immoral men, and argue that she is condoning the crime of infanticide because the poor girl does to her own child what would be a very different thing if done to the child of another is, to say the least, only worthy of him who wrote such words.—I am, Sir, &c., A. J. L.