BOOKS FOR SPAIN
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—Any one of your readers who has been ill—by which I mean every one of your readers—knows the pleasure, not to say the necessity of books during the period of convalescence. In Spain, the Spanish Medical Aid Committee have now established at least four permanent hospitals, crowded with wounded from the International as well as from Spanish Brigades. These wounded are badly in need of books, and an effort is being made to collect good libraries for them. Books of the following categories are required : political, elementary scientific;. fiction (including detective stories) ; historical ; and books on simple technical subjects such as carpentry, electric fittings, . &c. Some new German and French books (for patients who do not speak English) would be much appreciated ; also Spanish grammars. If any of your readers are willing to give books, these would be very gratefully received and sent straight out to Spain by the Com- mittee of the Spanish Medical Aid, 24 New Oxford Street, W.C. x ; or should there be too much difficulty and distress attaching to the despatching of parcels, the S.M.A. would, if informed, collect books from London and near-London addresses.
Perhaps it is scarcely necessary to add a reminder that the wounded in Spain are as likely as we are to find dull books dull and bad books bad ; and to beg that such volumes as sink the owners' spirits should be allowed to remain in the spare room, the boxroom, the cupboard in the passage.— Yours faithfully, ROSAMOND LEHM INN. Spanish Medical Aid Committee, 24 New Oxford Street, W.C. r.
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