27 AUGUST 1927, Page 17

LIGHTING A WOOD FIRE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

Sla,—Those of your readers who are interested in the Cape Cod lighter may be glad to know that it can be procured under the name of Alfeu from R. J. Gibson, Princes Street, Edinburgh. It seems a pity that so useful an article should not be better known.—I am, Sir, &c.,

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Heath House, Marlborough. K. BLAKE.

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