14 DECEMBER 1889, Page 16

A VILLAGE LIBRARY.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " FPECTATOR:] you allow me to express my sincere thanks to those who anonymously sent me books in answer to my letter in the Spectator of November 30th P I am also obliged for the suggestions of your correspondents. I do not think the loaning of books by Societies, or any arrangement for inter- change between village libraries can be satisfactory. Do what one will, when the library is free and popular, there is frequently damage, and sometimes loss. Labourers on 9s. a week do not care to pay even a weekly penny, and one cannot

be surprised at it. That they read the books at all must give us satisfaction for the present.—I am, Sir, &c.,

F. D. PERROTT..

Ixworth Vicarage, Bury St. Edmunds, December 9th.