BOY-POWER AND SOLDIER-POWER,
(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."3 SIR,—Neither you in your editorial note to my letter on the above subject, nor Mr. J. Forbes-Townshend in the Spectator of the 21st, have touched my argument, If the nation requires that my sou should now give up his whole time to cultivating the land, an one would be more ready than I that he should do so. But in that ease I fail to see why patriotism calls upon use to pay high Public School fees for an education which he is not receiving. Those fees are paid in the hope of qualifying him to serve, as soon as he is old enough, as an officer in His Majesty's Army. But if the authorities decree that at this time all Public School boys are better employed giving their whole time to the land, I can find plenty of work for him on my own farms, or those of my tenants and neighbours, without sending him. to work for Farmer Giki (I took the name from your own article, by the way) or the Duke of Marlborough. Your note was fair, though, I submit, mistaken criticism. Mr. Forbes-Townshentra remark that my sou "Alight remain at school in dignified isolation under the care of some elderly governess" is merely bad manners.—I am, Sir, &c.,
Hues Memo.
[We cannot continue this correspondence.—ED. Spectator.]
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