[la the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] faa,—Sir William Beach Thomas.
may succeed, where some Others wrongly thought they had succeeded six years ago, if we now organize with him a protest against the- loathsome -practice -which -he so accurately describes. Six years ago we wrote to the Times, which gave us its powerful support, and we obtained -an assurance ; but the foul thing returned. I hope that the other signatories of our joint_ letter at that ,time will return to the charge now. Mrs. Reginald McKenna -was one of them, I- remember.. - -
:la another letter I adduced an argument which has lost a part, 'but by no means the whole, of its ,cogency—that the sound of guns ruined Monte- Carlo as a place of convalescence for many men who had had enough of guns -in the War : -victims of so-called' shell-shook, and not only they. Even now the sound is injurious to many sensitive persons who come to this coast for- health and rest. I warn all such against visiting Monte Carlo. In this otherwise quiet and clear air, the reports utterly ruin even a walk round Cap 'Martin.
That is amongst the-reasons why many of us take refuge pt the safe distance of Beaulieu, where we exercise our muscles and our senses, and even our moral qualities, in TJutting not lovely sentient birds, but - rubber balls, in the rue sport called lawn tennis, one of our native 'country's 'best gifts to mankind, which can thus- be -combative and clever and quick without being cruel.-1 am, Sir, dte., Bedford Hotel, Beaulieu-sur-Mer. W. SALEEBY.
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