19 FEBRUARY 1927, Page 19

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

Sin,—" Laver" (as Mr. St. John Ervine calls it) is by no means unusual in Wales. It is known as laver bread---" bare lauer "—and served with bacon at breakfast. It is pleasant to any man who likes all that smacks of the sea, and I imagine that its value to the human body lies in the fact that it probably