15 FEBRUARY 1902, Page 16

EUTHANASIA.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Without wishing to encroach too much on your accus- tomed courtesy, I should like to quote the late Canon Liddon on the subject of the interesting correspondence now closing : —" To live is to be on our trial, with a tremendous future immediately before us ; and to shorten this trial by a volun- tary act is, apart from other and even graver aspects of such an act, felt to be irreconcilable with the Christian estimate