26 JULY 1902, Page 15

BRITISH BRANCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR FRANCISCAN STUDY.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTETOR.1 SIR,—A few students of the life and times of St. Francis have felt that it would be well to focus here at home interest in the International Society, which was inaugurated on June 1st at Assisi, by forming a British branch of the mother-Society. This they intend shortly to do with the full assent of M. Paul Sabatier, who will meet us next year in London and deliver an address. Meanwhile, as many of your readers will be interested in the work of the mother-Society, I would ask any who think they will care to join the British branch of the Society to correspond with the Hon. and Rev. James Adderley, St. Mark's, Marylebone, who kindly undertakes for the present to act as hon. secretary.—I