[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—I have read the Spectator regularly for a great many years and have been accustomed to look upon its articles as models of correct English. The Spectator has great traditions to maintain, and any lapse is therefore the more noticeable. In " The Old Bailey and the Press," of the number of July 16th, there is a sentence : " For a woman to expose herself physically naked would be far less repellent than a deliberate parade of the secrets of what she would, no doubt call her soul."
The writer assumes that for a woman to expose herself physically naked is to a certain extent repellent. There are many reasons which make it inadvisable for her to do so— [That is a- matterof opinion an& depends on circumstances. But " expose " implies deliberate exhibition.—En. Spectator.]
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