17 MARCH 1923, Page 10

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Six,—You have raised an

extraordinarily interesting point, I have not yet had time to consider all the possible ramificar tions, but it seems to me, subject to proper safeguards from the point of view of the independence of the paper, which its readers all love, that your regular readers would be honoured to be regarded as life members. Subject to proper con- sideration and thrashing out of details, I am entirely in

favour of your scheme and hasten to subscribe myself proA visionally as a life member.—I am, Sir, &c.,

PETER D. Thomas.

144 Adelaide Road, Hampstead, N.W. 3.

P.S.—I have read the Spectator regularly for thirty years.