27 AUGUST 1937, Page 21

"THE GREATEST VICTORIAN"

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—GreaMeSS is that within a man which lifts him head and shoulders above his fellows and enables him to carry out into practice the aims of a fine character. Bearing this in mind, have we all forgotten the great Lord Shaftesbury, the 7th Earl —" the greatest philanthropist of the nineteenth century" ae Whitaker has it ?—Yours faithfully, A. F. MAYNARD.

Helstead Farm, P.O. Wolhuters Kop, via Pretoria.