23 AUGUST 1913, Page 19

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] have read with much

interest the article on "The Ethics of Receiving." With regard to the question whether one can take one's friends abroad as guests without injury to their self-respect, surely in such a case one receives an equiva- lent, the companionship of one's friend or friends, which more than compensates for the outlay. Personally I should feel it a deprivation if the "Ethics of Receiving" banned this 'delightful form of hospitality.—I am, Sir, Ste., Lismullen, Wimbledon Park. ELLEN C. TAIT.