30 AUGUST 1919, Page 17

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

Sia,—Your anonymous correspondent " Inquirer," instead of responding to my invitation to come to the offices of the National Adoption Society and examine the elaborate data dealing with cases as various and as complicated as human nature itself, has preferred to assert (on his own authority) that " it is to be hoped that when the illegitimate war babies have been disposed of the Society will close down," and that cases of legitimate children who are homeless can he dealt with " privately or through existing agencies." Were this the case, the National Adoption Society would not have come into

existenee:—I am, Sir, he., JOSEPHINE PLOWS-DAY.