MOTOR-CARS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Your correspondent, "Pazienza," in the Spectator of October 21st is, I think, very much "off the rails" when he concludes that the motor-car is only another means of rapid motion for the young. If be is the lover of horses which his letter indicates, surely he must look forward to the day when the motor will step in—which assuredly it will do—and put a stop once and for all to the many gross cruelties which one sees practised every day on the most noble of animals. No doubt there are objections to the motor.car as it is now pro- duced, but your correspondent cannot for a moment think that in a few years there will not be a vast improvement in its construction,—as well may he expect to find the same roll- ing stock on our railways to-day as in the time of Stephenson. So far as his remarks re the bicycle are concerned, I ask "Pazienza" one question : Is it not a fact that the bicycle has been the means of admitting thousands who toil day in and day out in our tearing cities to obtain a peep of the beautiful, which otherwise they could never have done, even though it be at the expense of the few who "fall into the dreamy bliss of a drive in the gloaming" ? That this must be good for our race and for all mankind cannot be denied.—I am, Sir, &c., MALING GRAY. Burleigh Mansions, Charing Cross.
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