16 AUGUST 1913, Page 14

[TO TER EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sin,—In your article " The King and the Constitution " you argue as if the " Constitution" were now intact, and as if the House of Lords had not been tampered with. You speak of " Parliament " as if it were a House of Commons only. It has often occurred to me that as the House of Lords has been deprived of its proper place in the Constitution, the King's power must be called in to redress the balance, though it would be much better to restore the power of the House of Lords. Let us wait for that by all means, but the sooner it is done the better. The balance is gone, and I do not wonder that Mr. Arnold White suggests the King's veto as a