11 FEBRUARY 1911, Page 12

THE HARRIET REVELATIONS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sra.,—It is to be hoped that the revelations of "Harriet" will induce people in society to be rather more careful than is sometimes the case as regards their treatment of servants. The warning was given some centuries ago. Cicero (Pro 31. Caelio xxm) said: " Quis enim hoc non videt, judices, ant quis ignorat, in ejusmodi domo hie servos non ease servos quibus omnia committantur, per quos gerantur. . . . quibns occulta credantur ? " Of course, the real remedy is that pro- pounded by Juvenal, in a passage on which I cannot lay my finger at this moment, but which I think I am quoting correctly :

"Vivendium recte, tam propter plurima, turn de his Praecipue causis, ut linguas maneipiorum Comtemnas."