13 MARCH 1915, Page 16

" A TERRIBLY STRANGE BED."

[To Two EDIT= 07 1E0 SAEMS700..] Sfit,—The story referred to in your review in last week's issue of Mr. Conrad's book, Within the Tides, was entitled "A Terribly Strange Bed." It was by Wilkie Collins, and was published in an early number of Household Words. It was a very terrifying tale to ray boyhood.

May I, as I am writing, call your attention to a sentence in your notice of the March number of the Fortnightly? Your reviewer says "It is impossible to have the work done for us by the Navy described too often. Mr. Archibald Hord does it here, and seta out, dus." Does not this constitute a " bull " worthy of inclusion in Mr. Percy'e collection of those enter-

taining animals, also reviewed in your last number am,