19 SEPTEMBER 1908, Page 15

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1

"Public Librarian" is a fair sample of the public, his own letter (Spectator, September 12th) confutes his state- ment that the public know and use the one-inch Ordnance maps. Ile tells us that other maps are .bought by those who walk and cycle because they fold up and are mounted,—" you .cannot take one of the sheets of the Survey maps in your .pocket." He apparently. does not know, and never has used, the mounted and folding maps published by the Ordnance Department, These are particularly convenient, because any one part of the map can be consulted without opening out the whole.. They form by far the best maps for a pedestrian or for a .prolonged stay in one centre.—I am, Sir, &c.,