[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "]
wish to thank you for the kindliness, and still more for the fairness, of an article in your last issue headed " Eton." The National Review had printed a cruel though ridiculous libel, for which ignorance and carelessness would be a poor excuse. This you justly characterised, adding at the same time two hints of lesser defects in sanitation which you think need our attention. On these I am happy to be able to reassure you. So far from there being no " building supple- mental to the Sanatorium to which boys who need special nursing could be removed," there are already two large buildings supplemental to, but separate from, the Sanatorium ready to receive certain special cases. And so far from "cases needing quiet" being treated "with the noise of the passage outside, and not overmuch light or air," there is in every boarding-house a suite of sick-rooms for patient and nurse, inspected by authority, and always reserved for the reception of such cases.—I am, Sir, &c., Eton College. SENIOR ASSISTANT-MASTER.
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