CAPTAIN BOWEN-COLTHURST.
(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sni,—It is long since I have read a more pathetic letter than that from Mrs. Bowen-Colthuret in your issue of November 10th. Doctore who have studied shell-shock, as you remarked in a recent review of a-book on the subject, have decided that it is a malady whisk is best coped with by not treating the patienta as lunatics. By treating them eo they may be made worse; by seeing their friends they may be the more readily brought back to a balanced view of the world. Are the authorities afraid that the Sinn Feinere would break out again if Contain Bowen-Colthasai war
released—or even if his condition were mitigated—and that some of them would have to be imprisoned for a week or two till friends demanded their release? Do they think that to torture Captain Bowen-Colthuret's wife is a sop to the Irish ? I cannot believe that even a Sinn Feiner looks on with unholy glee at the spectacle of Mrs. Bowen-Colthurst being denied exact information regarding her husband. In days when any law-breaker can be released from prison nt the threat of his friends and confederates, surely a plea for humanity might aim be listened to—I am, Sir, &c., HUMANITARIAN.
[We comment on this letter in our " News of the Week " notes.— Ea Spectator.]
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