6 JULY 1934, Page 23

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] &a—Replying to the letter

from " Modernist " in your last issue, may I say that I readily accept Bracton's definition of abortion as homicide " if the foetus be already formed and animated " ? This is exactly what I intended to convey in my first letter, in reference to embryonic life.—I am, Sir, &c.,