[To THE EDITOR OT THIS "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—You say in an editorial note last week that the King should be looked on as the chairman of the nation. It is exactly apposite. Surely one of the essential duties of a chairman is that of putting a question for decision before the body of voters. This is exactly what his Majesty would be doing by withholding his assent until the nation has spoken its wishes. No one thinks such an exercise of his functions to be either wrong or imprudent in a chairman, and this is all that is desired. Can one imagine a good chairman not doing [We confess that our correspondent's application of our metaphor is logical. But few metaphors can be pressed to the limits of logic. We did not mean that the King is a chairman in our correspondent's sense, and as we invented the metaphor we may claim the privilege of being the inter- preters of our own meaning.—En. Spectator.]
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