MUSEUM LECTUIIES.
[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—In your issue of April 15th you publish a letter from Lord Sudeley, referring to the private- lectures in the British Museum in the evenings for the benefit of the staffs of banking institutions. In this letter I think Lord Sudeley quite unin- tentionally conveys the impression that the- trustees wore approached in. the first instance with a suggestion that the cost of_ the lectures should be borne by the Museum. This, however, was not the case, and such a request was not for-one moment thought of by the people responsible, who quite realized that no one section ought to benefit at the expense of the community in general. The possibility of hearing in. the evenings the lectures which are given in the daytime appealed to them so strongly that when they first approached the Director of the Museum they made it quite clear that if the expense were the only obstacle they would gladly bear- all charges of every kind, so that not a penny should fall on. the public funds. - Sir Frederick Kenyon very kindly intimated at once that the proposal provided for the- removal of the only difficulty, and. he forthwith. sulamittec1 it. to the trustees, with the happy result indicated. Lord Sudeley, I note, considers it " marvellous " that, after a day's work in the City, people should want to hear the lectures. We consider it marvellous that he should think so. The City knows a good thing when
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