... . Dear Sir, We have read with great interest the learned contributor on The Cruelties of Divorce, anl agree that reforms suggested by him are needed. It is, however, rather stressing the case for the married men and women. But what is to be said for the thousands of women, particularly tho3e who are condemned to celibacy or sin against then- natural desires, cither through mis-directcd or ...

... Sir, I was surprised to read in a letter from Mr. V. G. Fyfc suggestions that Scotland has been unfairly treated in your columns the contrary appears to mo to be the case. What is required is the necessary exercise of a sense of proportion in speaking of England and Scotland. How many pooplo realise the meaning of the word British, which can only be interpreted as English, Scotch, and Welsh, ...

... . DEAR SIR, If one took what Sir John Foster Fraser stated in his article The Curae of Bureaucracy to bo authentic, one would be led to believe that the Civil Servant's job is a sinecure. That such is not the case will bo borne out by the following fact. The total number of Civil Servants is 300,000 50 per cent, of that number receive less than £3 per week and 75 per cent. Ie3s than £4 per ...

... A Medical Index Expurgatorius. Dear Sir, Britannia is a new paper a lively, lusty youngster I may add but many of its hundreds of thousands of readers have no doubt reached the middle years. Those who have will remember the hectic days when Mr. Lloyd George, levied toll upon the community in order to give his promised 9d. for 4d. Amazingly large numbers of people quite seriouslj' believed ...

... . Sir.. Will the Editor take any notice of an ordinary woman's opinion If so, I give it. I got the new magazine and hailed it with pleasure to send to two boys out in Rhodesia, because one is glad to have the light of torches thrown over old topics even and certainly on new ones. But I, like Harvey Preen, say do not run down Stanley Baldwin. He is a man who lovc3 his country, and with patience ...

... . Dear Sir, I have read the two issues of your new journal and must comment upon the high level of every thing contained therein. It must succeed by reason of its obvious sincerity and unbiassed opinions. Your criticisms of Mr. Baldwin were destined to raise protests from a host of readers, but they must remember that the criticism was directed not against the man but his statesmanship. A man ...

... . kM.lv, It would have been more in compliance with the accepted code of ordinary politeness to have forwarded me a copy of your periodical Bri tannia, in the current number of which one of your anonymous contributors mades a singularly abusive and ill-informed attack on myself and my attitude towards vaccination. By accident I learnt of same to-day, to-morrow I will reply to this most ...

... . Dear Sir, Is science principally to blame for the fact emphasised by the Rev. R. J. Campbell that reli gious faith is not so strong as formerly nor so forcibly a motive governing current activities Day by day she gives us spiritual enlightenment as well as material comforts and, had she control of the instruments she has evolved for the dissemination of knowledge, I think she might convince ...

... . Dear Sir, You aro pointing a finger to-day at the rust and moths that corrupt, and the thieves that break tlirougli and steal. However, although you claim to be an ardent Imperialist, with an understanding of Empire affairs, in addition to acting as pillory clamper to your intellectual inferiors, I beg to state that your conception of the most important factor in Imperial affairs, Emigration ...

... . Pear Sir, May I congratulate you on your new venture and wish you every success At the same time may I call your attention to your musical article and to point out the error in referring to the Zurich Philharmonic Orchestra when Vienna is surely indicated. Please do not adopt the attitude, assumed by so many newspapers and periodicals, that music being the Cinderella of the arts (so far as ...

... f . Dear Sir, May I, on behalf of the Air League, congratulate you on the admirable and outspoken article by Mr. Rossiter published in the second number of Britannia Civil aerial transport is a great new constructive agency in civilisation and offers inestimable benefits to the British Commonwealth. Yet we possess to-day, in this tenth year after the Armistice, a grand total of but twenty-one ...

... . Dear Sir, Great interest was aroused recently by the action of the General Post Office in placing abroad an important contract for bronze wire. The Post Office explained their action by charging the British manufacturers, not for the first time, with de manding excessive prices. This charge is so serious, both in itself and in its consequences to British industry, that the Chair man of the ...