26 MARCH 1921, Page 15

[To rat EDITOR OP TER "BPICT4TOR!I Ste, —I have just

made the great experiment in this the down- stair room or library. The eighth book on the third shelf - (counting from right to left) is the Statesman's Year Book for 1910. Page 14, threequarters way down, is the obvious message : " Total population of England " so many millions. What did Carlyle say? Immediately below this a book " which tells of great spaces "—The Year Book of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony. And the first-mentioned (with the message) bears a round design, like a florin of Queen Victoria's time, on its cover. I, too, leave all comment to the reader.—I am, Sir, &c.,

F. S. CBOOKSHANK.

Royal Societies Club, St. James's Street, S.W.