20 JUNE 1931, Page 18

POINTS FROM LETTERS

BOOK-HUNTING ADVENTURES.

The Watts Dunton story is authentic—indeed, not long ago, on the death of " the lady," I had to look up the deeds, and the ingrained dusty condition of one of them reminded me of the day on which I found it in his office in Lincoln's Inn. It is also a fact that he took twenty years to write his