" State Almshouses " [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]
SIR,—In the Christmas number of The Spectator Mrs. Ray Strachey said " The women of England " have made a living force of their Institutes and other organizations " because they......
The Young Capitalist
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] cannot believe that many of the readers of The Spectator will be misled by the wholely erroneous statements and conclusions set forth with such......
Methods Of Execution
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—On this question I remember reading the argument of a distinguished Scot, Mounstuart Elphinstone, that the ideal form of execution was the......
Society And Executions [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]
Sia,—The first State function of 1935 is to be the hanging of a young labourer called Rushworth for the murder of his infant child. Nobody worries much about it except those who......
The King's English [to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sia,—it
is much to be hoped that some of the B.B.C.'s broad- casters who need them should read and profit by Mr. Rat- cliffe's criticisms in this week's Spectator. Why should we have......
[to The Editor Of The Spectator.]
SIR,—Mr. Paton misses the real point which animates public anger and disgust at the execution of Mrs. Major. It was that the Home Secretary hanged her in face of her jury's......
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