THE NEW YEAR HONOURS.
[To TEN EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:]
Sin,—In commenting on the New Year honours in the Spectator of January 8th, you briefly remark of Mr. J. C. Holder that you "only know that he lives at Birmingham." Mr. Holder deserves a fuller knowledge of his merits. He has been for some years past chairman of the Committee of the General Hospital, Birmingham, and in this capacity has devoted himself, head and heart and purse, to the service of his city. It is mainly through his unremitting exertions and princely munificence that Birmingham has, in its new General Hospital, perhaps the most complete institution of the kind in the United Kingdom. If pure unselfish beneficence deserves State recognition, then Mr. Holder's claims are exceedingly strong. I should add that I have no personal knowledge of School House, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, January 9th.
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