(To TEE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.1
SIR,—I agree with you that no good purpose will be served by prolonging this discussion further. And now, Mi. Editor, since you haieliiilt so much black ink, might one ask : Why
this severe attack on Messrs. Cadbury and Rowntree, men whose character, both public and private, needs no apology ? Surely it is not they but you who are on the defence. Did you but want to attack social evils and wrongdoers, then God be with you ; but do not become a sixpenny edition of Tohn Bull. Again let me ask why this obiter dictum, this unseemly attack on philanthropic men ? Is it personal P is it sectarian P or is it political ? (like your review of a Socialist's " Ann Veronica "). Or is it merely the editor's point of view P If the last, might I suggest that the University bias and prejudice would be broadened by reading " Life of John Wilhelm Rowntree," or " Life of Richard Cadbury " P Then you woull find, as William Penn said, that "this is the comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are in the best sense ever present because immortal."—
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