21 AUGUST 1936, Page 21

CORK AND COOK [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]

Sia,—In your issue of June 5th Sir William Beach Thomas, in his ,eVer delightful ",Country Life " notes tries to put across a good.double. "The glorious Cork mountains." In the highest peak of the Southern Alps we perpetuate the memory of Jairies,Cook, not County Cork !—Yours truly, Victoria Street, Kawera, New Zealand. . A. M. Youxc.