[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sm,—With reference to
the criticism offered by "S. B. L.-T." in last week's Spectator regarding the article which appeared in your issue of December 10th on " First Aid to Uncles," may I, as a somewhat perplexed member of the responsible class whom you were endeavouring to assist, thank you for the helpful suggestions and information contained in this article, and for saving me from having recourse to the cowardly and uninteresting expedient of augmenting the nepotal money-boa? By your help I, for one, was saved much time and mental cogitation, and was enabled to obtain suitable presents which gave intense delight to the youthful recipients, in spite of the fact that they were in great danger of not participating in them to the desired extent owing to the interest shown in these various gifts by the older generation. The thought of any benefit which might arise to the firms whom you named and who, of course, were already well known to most of us before your article appeared, was, I must confess, quite secondary in my mind to the thought of the benefit to those of your readers- for whom your suggestions were intended. You have a difficult task before you if, with all your diversity of subjects, you are to avoid saying anything which might, quite unintentionally, be to the advantage of someone or other.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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