30 NOVEMBER 1929, Page 20

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

Sia,--Every day I still see numbers of horses on the London Streets. They are reasonably well cared for. They have all learnt how to stand up on the modern type of road surface. They practically never fall down. Many of them are very beautiful animals. I thank Heaven that I still have the good luck to be able to see and admire them.

Perhaps Mr. Galsworthy—as a professed lover of animals:– will tell me why the sight of these animals getting their living should cause him such intense discomfort that he wishes to condemn them all to death ? I do not admit that their work is in any way painful, but even if it caused them a certain amount of minor discomfort, would they not, like foxes and otters, rather undergo it than never live at all ?-