MR. LEVER.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In the Spectator of March 12th a "Unionist Free- Trader" sneers at one of the Liberal Members in the last Parliament as a successful soap-boiler. This must refer to Mr. Lever. Mr. Lever has led the way in showing that a manufacturing village can be both healthy and beautiful Nothing can be more delightful than the contrast between Port Sunlight and the ordinary factory towns and villages. He has endowed the School of Civic Design in the University of Liverpool with £800 a year, besides conferring the same benefit upon the Tropical School of Medicine. To him Liver- pool owes the preservation of the Bluecoat School, a fine eighteenth-century building which had been doomed to destruction. If Conservative politicians were conservative of inherited beauty, it would be hard instead of easy to differ from their politics. I hope, Sir, that you will agree with me in thinking that any political party might be proud of counting Mr. Lever among its members.—I am, Sir, &c.,
and deserves all possible credit therefor. His contribution to the better housing of the working classes is of the highest value. We by no means adopt the sneer to which he alludes if the sneer was meant for Mr. Lever, but upon that point we have no knowledge.—ED. Spectator.]
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