7 JANUARY 1928, Page 21

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your ingenious correspondent, Mr.

Sibley, says that it should not " pass the wit of modern man to organize a clean sweep [of foxes] by systematic shooting and netting." Simi- larly, it would doubtless' be possible to exterminate deer, hare, badger, otter, and other pleasant beasts of whose existence Mr. Sibley presumably does not approve, because they are hunted. So this is humanitarianism ! Solitudinern faciunt, paean appellant. Well may the hunted animals pray to be delivered from their " friends."—I am, Sir, &c., E. W. HENDY.-