25 DECEMBER 1926, Page 16

A " FAR FLUNG " SPECTATOR [To the Editor of

the SPECTATOR.] Si*,—! think the following story of a-" far flung" weekly copy of the Spectator is worth telling. For more than thirty years I have been a subscriber, and having read my copy I send it each week to a friend in Lancashire, who in turn sends it to a minister's manse in the Scottish. Highlands. After perusal, it is passed on to a near neighbour by whom it is posted to a married daughter in India. Out there two of her neighbours get it in turn. Then a Parsee assistant in the husband's club is presented, with the paper, and finally it is placed in an Indian Babus' Club. . This, it appears, has been going. on for years, but I only heard last week of the widespread pleasure and instruction which my copy of the Spectator provides.—I am, Sir, &e.,