12 NOVEMBER 1910, Page 17

[*** We are informed that the inference in a letter

published in the Spectator of the 29th ult. that Chambers's Journal refused to publish a reply to some criticisms that had appeared in its pages on the old Friendly Societies is misleading. Chambers's Journal received two or three replies from officials of the old Societies, and published one which, in its judgment, fairly stated their case.]