3 DECEMBER 1910, page 15

The Accident Of Birth.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Srn,—The above phrase has been unusually conspicuous of late, even in the Spectator's columns, where it occurs again in the last number. In......

The Unionists And House Of Lords Reform.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] ventured to write a letter last week to the Spectator suggesting the great need at the present crisis of definite pledges on the part of the......

What Would Bentham Have Said Of The Referendum ?

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—More than fifty years ago one of the early Benthamites said to me that the arguments for universal suffrage had seemed apparently to his......

To Conservative Free-traders.

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. R. B. Suthers, a prominent Socialist writer, in a recently published booklet of his, says as follows :—" Retain Free Trade and......

Nonconformists And The Election.

[To THZ EDITOR OF TEN "SpEcrkr0a."1 SIR,—Having been a conscientious reader of the Spectator for many years, I am naturally often much influenced by its counsel, and you now......