6 NOVEMBER 1915, Page 26

SHOPKEEPERS.

THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") • SIR,—Contempt for ,shopkeeping is, According to Ilamerton, also characteristic of the old noblesse of France. In his delightful. book, French and English, he relates that the claim of a bourgeois family to recognition in " society " was met by the contemptuous remark : "Ile out vendu quelque chose."—