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of May 23rd on "The Ethics of Gambling," I venture to suggest that the moral aspect of the practice was admirably and tersely summed up some seventy-odd years ago by General Sir Charles Napier, then Commanding-in-Chief in India, who, in a general order maim- adverting on the growth of the habit amongst officers of the Indian Army, published the following pregnant sentence "Few can lose without suffering; therefore none ought to win without remorse."—I am, Sir, &a, F. A. ADAM. .luberge d'Aragon, Malta.