life, UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF NANCY. [To TIE EDITOR OF TEO
" SPICTATOR"] SIR,—At the end of the war, on October 31st, 1918, the library of the University of Nancy was destroyed by an incendiary bomb, and the English section in particular suffered heavily. Not a single volume remains of the works of such standard English authors as Carlyle, Dickens, Meredith, Scott, Matthew Arnold, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Fielding, Smollett, Richardson, Jane Austen, Swift, Pope. Efforts are being made by the University of London to assist the University of Nancy in re-establishing its Library after the ravages of the war. Already about 500 volumes have been collected for this pur- pose, and an appeal is now made to all who are in a position to contribute books to send them to the undersigned, who is in charge of the work. Gifts of money for the purchase of books will also be gratefully received.—I am, Sir, &c., REGINALD A. RYE,
Goldsmiths' Librarian, University of Leaden. South Kensington, London, S.W. 7.
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