THE RAISED PRICE OF THE " SPECTATOR."
[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."3 SIR,—The announcement that you intend to raise the price of the Spectator to ninepence in March reminds me of an incident which happened in the spring of 1916, while returning from leave to Manchester. Being in uniform, I had to travel first- class, and at Carlisle I left the compartment for a few minutes, leaving my copy of the Spectator on the carriage seat. On my return I found a cheap popular weekly had been substituted for my paper. I suspected a fellow-countryman who left the train at that station, and whose taste for good literature had not been able to overcome his love of the "ban-bees." With the.increase of price which you foreshadow, and which, I may remark in parenthesis, is reasonable and amply justified, it will behove travellers to hold fast to that whick is good, and not throw temptation in the path of "economists" who may happen to share the same railway carriage.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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