POINTS FROM LETTERS
VOLUNTARY HOSPITALS.
As a member of a district committee (The Eskdale and Boot Hospital Committee), working on behalf of our local general hospital, The West Cumberland Hospital, Whitehaven, I should like to endorse the benefit we have received through adopting the weekly subscription (2d. in our ease), for collecting funds for the above institution : it serves a very wide area, both an outer circle of ' industrial towns, and, such as we are, a number of widely-scattered and, in many cases, very remote villages and hamlets. Nearly all these places now have local committees raising funds for the hospital which is an excellent one, able to train its probationers for qualifica- tion for registration, though it is one of the smaller (about 100 beds) provincial general hospitals. It is worthy of nate that as well as the usual wards there is a much appreciated' department for paying patients who can afford a weekly fee, and a maternity block, and an X-ray and electrical department.—MARY C. FAIR (X-ray physicist, retired), 2, Rigg Cottages, Eskdale Holmrook, Cumberland.
BOORS WANTED.
May I, on behalf of a tiny English community, hit rather hard by the prevailing slump in all agricultural produce, appeal to your readers for books—more especially of the type reviewed by the Spectator, which incidentally reaches us at fourth hand—magazines and illustrated papers for our library ? This institution functions normally on an income of about ten pounds per annum, which under present conditions is reduced to microscopical proportions, while the demand for literature is more urgent than ever as other amenities are perforce given up.(Miss) STDNEy ALLEN, Hon. Librarian, Ugie, Cape Province, South Africa.
AUTHOR WANTED.
Will you allow me through the medium of your corre- spondence pages in the Spectator to ask who is the author of the following lines ? Also where they are published, and what other verses follow them ?
" From the lone shelling in the misty Isles, Oceans divide us, and a world of seas.
But yet my heart is true, my heart is highland. And in my dreams I see the Hebrides."
—MARGARET MEADE, Lords Hill Cottage, Shamley Green, Surrey.
WANDERINGS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA.
May I direct your readers' attention to a slight error in the notice of my Wanderings in Czechoslovakia appearing in your last issue ? Your reviewer states that the book lacks, and badly needs, an index." Actually there is one, extending to three pages. As regards the, map, it was thought best to include a reliable and up-to-date one, those of Prague, Brno and Bratislava are admittedly small but still may be useful, as are, I hope, the data beneath them.—GERALD DEUCE, M.Sc. (Loud.), R. Nat. Dr. (Prague).
[We are sorry that the index was overlooked, owing to its- unusual position behind the map.—En. Spectator.]
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