1 MARCH 1935, page 18

The Death Penalty

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The article on the death penalty (February 8th) said that it is not compatible with modern civilization to demand that the State should......

Hands Off The Lake District

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Considerable anxiety has been expressed in many quar- ters over the purchase of a large tract in Eskdale by the Forestry Commission, and I......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sir,—in The Spectator Of

February 22nd there appears a letter from Dr. B. C. Andrade-Thompson advocating the abolition of the motor horn. That this would result in less noise and in more careful driving......

The Beheading Of Women

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Janus rightly avers that the beheading of two women in Berlin is the culminating act of barbarism, not of Nordic minds, as ha suggests,......

The Use Of Motor-horns

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was interested to read in The Spectator of February 15th Janus's disapproval of the suggestion that car drivers should be forbidden to......

Physician Or Priest ?

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your issue of February 15th Mr. Godwin states : " The Church must define its province as physician and limit it to the realm of......