28 JULY 1928, Page 17

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

SIR,—For heaven's sake :or rather for the sake of " the animals "—let us have done with these wretched bickerings between personal (human) enemies. A man burned a mouse alive in a candle flame the other day. Did any of your correspondents who are so busy slanging each other hear [We agree ; but presumably it was the Society, doing its duty by the mouse, that lcd to the prosecution of the man.—En. Spectator.]