To the Editor of the "Nontu-Ciina Dairy News." protest against the inclusion Sim should ike to, add study of the "Merchant of Venice" in the curriculum of the Municipal Schools to that of your admirable consider it entirely contrary to the public interest at a time such as this to study a play which embody description of a perfect, trial given to an. individual who must, I imagine, have certainly not been entitled to'any extraterritorial ights. Indeed the case of the late Mr. William Shakespeare might well engage the attention of the val Society of St, George or of the British Residents' Association, either or beth of which would, in my opinion, be entirely justified in passing a vote of censure on' the author of a work so subversive of the best interests of an important section of his fellow-countrymen.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.