ABSTRACT
If we wished, for any reason, to avoid the fullest possible discussion of this question, the letter from Mr. Hovenden, which appeared in our last issue, would certainly afford us an excellent excuse for doing so. No fair-minded spectator would considor unreasonable if we were to decline altogether to deal with an antagonist who so persistently refuses to come up to the scratch; but as we are still hopeful that Mr. Hovenden may have something to say, and as we would very much sooner have the question dealt with in these columns than in those of one of our contemporaries, who might possibly refuse to give a fair hearing to our side of the matter, we again return to the weary task of trying to direct this discussion into something approaching a definite and tangible form.
