18 JUNE 1927, Page 16

SPARE THE OTTER [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As

a constant subscriber to the Spectator, may I express my gratitude to the writer of a letter in the current issue entitled " Spare the Otter " and to you for publishing it ?

Having lived many years in an otter-hunting country, I can endorse all that is said on behalf of this relentlessly per- secuted creature, but remonstrance has availed little, for, there_ seems to be something in the pursuit of such sports which deadens feeling and destroys imagination.—I am, Sir, &c., M. A. BINSTEAD„ Norfolk Hotel, Harrington Road, S.W.7.