[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—One of your correspondents,
while admitting, as an obvious fact, the cruelty of. fox-hunting, seems to consider such cruelty justified by the qualities of character that fox- hunting develops.
I am sure it would be of interest to your readers to know what exactly are those qualities that are so developed by a sport inseparable from cruelty, and whether similar qualities may not equally well be developed by such sports as football, cricket, and rowing, or even by the somewhat exacting give- and-take of ordinary life.
Your correspondent reminds us of the officer who led his troops " over the top " to the sound of the hunting-horn. Does he mean to suggest that that gallant officer would have been less gallant had he not been a hunting man ?—I am, Sir,
&c., E. J. BEvAri. The Nook, Stonehouse, Glos.
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