Fro THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "]
SIR,—I bad already written you a letter on this subject when I saw Mr. Newbolt's letter in your last issue, and that so entirely expresses what I feel and wished to say that I will now ask permission only to subscribe to its protest.
May I, however, add that your justification of your attitude is difficult to understand P To claim that you stand for the freedom of the Press, to repudiate "suppression," and at the same time to do everything in your power towards the sup- pression of another periodical will seem to most men a hardly ingenuous sophistry. Disguise it as you will, the policy you promote is one of boycott and intimidation ; and what of good has this policy ever achieved P—I am, Sir, &c.,
LAURENCE BINYON.
[If we were boycotters we should boycott Mr. Binyon for not agreeing with us, which is the very last thing we desire to do. As Mr. Manning points out, an attempt is being made, under a " bogey " outcry about censorship, to force us into noticing " The Great Adult Review," because we detest its method of advertising itself and think the views which have been expressed in certain of its articles most mischievous. We claim the right to silence and to put in our shop-window the goods we think sound, and not those which we hold to be injurious.—En. Spectator.]
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