12 NOVEMBER 1927, Page 14

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Why labour the point

as to the cruelty of hunting the fox ? Of course it is cruel. Surely the question is one of values— the life of the fox—or not exactly the life of the fox, hounds do not kill every time they are taken out—versus the qualities developed by the hunting of him.

_ I wonder how many of the D.S.O.'s of the late War were hunting men. I have a iuspicion that there are people here in the North who will remember this week the sound of a hunting-horn when some of our Yorkshire boys " went over