BRADFORD VIA' SHIPLEY SIR,—I have just read Mr. Maurice Webb's
encomium on Bradford, which is very impressive. But my faith in his accuracy was somewhat discounted when i his first paragraph I found that he stressed Bradford's isolation by a suggestion that the phrase, " Change at Shipley," appeared frequently in the railway time-tables. Now, sir, every train reaching Shipley from the outside world is bound for Bradford; in the opposite direction every train has started from there. Whatever else Bradfordians have achieved in this world, it is quite certain that none of them has ever changed at Shipley. That depressing experience is reserved for those misguided travellers who, for the sake of saving time, are prepared to forgo the pleasure of visiting Mr. Webb's constituency.—Yours
faithfully, GERVASE HUGHB6. Hotel Frohburg, Wisen, Solothurn, Switzerland.
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