3 DECEMBER 1910, Page 13

[To ma EDITOR OF rue " Srlcuron."] Sin,—Would not Tacitus,

with that magnificent brevity to which you refer in your defence of the Referendum in the Spectator of November 19th, have retorted to opponents of that measure that "it is much easier to vote upon one com- plicated measure than upon half-a-dozen," as the voter has to do at present at a General Election P-1 am, Sir, &c.,

J. F. H. C.