27 JULY 1912, page 16

Increment Value Duty.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."' Sin,—A piece of land of the value of £1,000 at April 1909 may be held by the owner for fifty years and then sold for £1,500. In the interval......

Is Our Government Democratic P

[To TEE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR. "' SIR, — Is our Government democratic or despotic ? The answer is supplied by three of their recent financial measures. Old-Age Pensions,......

To Check The White Slave Traffic.

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR." . 1 Sts,—In Switzerland no one can take even a short journey by train without learning of the existence of agencies for the protection of......

The Wesleyan Conference.

[To ras ED/TOR or ras "EPECTATOR."] SIB., —Now and again the Spectator has been good enough to give a little space to some account of Methodism. This writer, turning over his......

The Treatment Of Hospital Obficers."

[To TEE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR." J glff,—I have just seen the letter signed "House Surgeon" in your issue of July 20th, headed " The Treatment of Nurses," which really deals......

The Scarcity Of Cottages.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR, — To the dwindling minority of Englishmen who know anything about rural life it is very evident that one of the chief reasons for the......

Carlyle And Mr. Asquith.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEcrATos."] SIR, —Surely Carlyle had Mr. Asquith and the present day in his prophetic eye when, some time before the summer of 1849, be wrote the......

Jackdaws And Theft.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB, — As I was sitting on the lawn chatting with some friends on Sunday last with the thermometer over eighty degrees in the shade we......

The Treatment Of Nurses.

[To THY EDITOR 07 THE "SrzCTATos..") SIR, —Let me suggest that the " House Visitors" at a hospital should be expected to take a meal weekly with the nurses in their dining-hall,......