4 MAY 1929, page 19

Is Nature Cruel?

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I should like to endorse the view expressed by E. C. Oppenheim as to the need for distinguishing between the cruelties of Nature......

Humane Casting

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sic,—While I fail to follow Mr. Emanuel in his letter of April 13th, I am in full agreement with Mr. Weinberg's claim that a real test of the......

Mrs. Flora Annie Steel

[To the Editor of the . SPECTATOR.] SIR,—AS one who writes from intimate knowledge of the novelist Flora Annie Steel, may I draw your attention to the fact that she valued......

Tile Value Of Private Enterprise [to The Editor Of The

SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mr. Selfridge does not attempt to appraise the value of private enterprise but merely seeks to defend it ; •and that not from " A Younger Point of View," but......