[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your courteous correspondent
" Herefordshire " (Spectator, April 9th) is perfectly right in thinking my observation of the sin of unchastity is limited to the Midlands ; but it is not confined to the manufacturing towns. My remarks apply equally to the villages. I live in one which has the most evil notoriety for this particular fault, and my friends living near in surrounding villages are aghast at the spreading of the evil. My experience covers a very large area indeed, and it is a sad fact that loving, earnest pleading for better things bears no fruit in checking this sin. We are in a stream of free living in the worst sense of the words, begotten of an absence of personal religion and rever- ence, and Socialistic teaching. It is a matter for thankfulness that in more southern counties the record is brighter and
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