3 NOVEMBER 1928, Page 29

Letters to the Editor

A MESSAGE FROM THE CANADIAN PREMIER

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I offer my most cordial good wishes to the Spectator on attaining its hundredth year ? There is no force which has done more to maintain and enhance the reputation and prestige of Britain abroad than its Press and not least the reviews which take all humanity for their province. The Spectator has played a notable part in this development. Its informed and incisive comment on public affairs, art, and letters and the open forum of its correspondence columns have held to high standards of interest and of fairness. It has presented the main trend of national thought and at the same time struck a distinctly independent and individual note. It has won the right to a second hundred years of growing influence and success.—I am, Sir, &c.,