"PRINCESS MARIE-JOSE'S CHILDREN'S BOOK."
(To THE EDITOR OF TEl " SPECTAT0112) beg you to permit me to draw attention to the publication of Princess Marie-Jose's Children's Book, issued last week in aid of the charity known as the Vestiaire Marie-Jose. The charity is unique, and the book is worthy of it. The Vestiaire Marie-Jose supplies milk and clothes for the babies of the villages behind the firing line in Flanders. German shells have done much to destroy the homes of these babies, and were it not for the milk powders sent out by the Vestiaire many of them would be half starved. Once a week the babies in each village are collected in the village school and weighed, and milk foods and small garments are distributed among them by the agents of the Vestiaire. So much for the charity. The Princess Marie-Jose's Children's Book is illustrated, and has sixteen full-page coloured pictures, eight wash drawings, and over thirty black-and-white drawings. The authors include H. G. Wells (who is also an illustrator), John Galsworthy, Barry Pain, Israel Zangwill, Pett Ridge, Violet Hunt, Mrs. W. K. Clifford, Mrs. Haden Guest, and many others. The artists include Frank Brangwyn, C. R. W. Nevinson, John Lavery, Edmund Dulac, Will Owen, John Hassell, Heath Robinson, Lawson Wood, Louis Raemaekers, Hilda Cowhani, Daphne Allen, and many others. Space would not permit me to cite all the names. Mrs. C. Haden Guest has edited the volume, and Messrs. Cassell and Co. publish it for the Vestiaire at the price of half-a- crown. It is designed for children, and it is beyond question marvellous value for the money. Having regard to this, and to the fact that in buying it parents will be giving pleasure to their own youngsters, while materially helping the unfortunate infants over there in Flanders, the promoters of Princess Marie-Jose's Children's Book are entitled to hope that their literary enterprise will have a very great popular success.—I am, Sir, Le.,
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