23 MAY 1914, Page 17

ISLAM AND PROGRESS.

[To rag .EDITOR OF TRX ..SPRCTZTOR...] Sts,—Like your correspondent Mr. Schaup (Spectator, May 9th), I have also lived amongst Moslems for twenty-six years, and without entering into the question of the value of the creed of El Islam, may I point out that we have in Egypt branches of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in all the big towns, and that they are found most