22 JUNE 1929, page 20

Prompted By A Letter In The Spectator Some Weeks Ago,

I proposed—and my local Rural District Council passed—a resolution to exclude children under sixteen (except such as were employed by butchers) from slaughterhouses. The R.D.C.......

Fox Hunting

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,=In continuation of Mr. E. M. Russell's interesting letter in the Spectator of to-day, may I add a word ? I am an old hunting man, who as a......

Madame Blavatsky.

the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your issue of April 13th, you say, on page 599, " . . . Madame Blavatsky was a fat, mannish, whisky-drinking, smoking seer . . " Italics......

Humanely Killed Furred Animals [to The Editor Of The...

am much interested in the correspondence re humanely killed fur animals. If people could have seen the agony that I saw in Canada they would never wear a trapped fur. Wretched......

Estate. Duties And Agriculture [to The Editor Of The...

Sia,—It has recently been suggested that estate duty on agricultural land should be made payable by the surrender of land, and it has been advanced as a reason for the......