20 NOVEMBER 1936, Page 40

[ To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-In - case your

note on Lord Ponsonby's Bill may be regarded by some readersas a fall from grace, it may perhaps be worth mentioning that, according to Murray's dictionary, your predecessoi in 1873 observed that " Euthanasia would be no more demoralising than capital punishment." He may perhaps have added that it would be a great deal more