27 FEBRUARY 1915, Page 16

AN APPEAL FOR BOOKS.

Pro THE Emma or am "Brsersrea."1

Sia,—Would your readers very kindly help me to collect a number of modern books for a lending library which is being started by our V.A.D. unit at Boulogne There are a great number of nurses and orderlies working in hospitals and ambulance trains who are delighted when we can offer them books. We should also be very grateful for illustrated weeklies of recent date, and for any games or luxuries which the public would give us. Our members are helping with the Hostel and Nurses Club at Boulogne, and are also in touch with all the ambulance trains. They are therefore certain of being able to hand whatever is given us to the people for whom it is meant, and anything sent to me, with the name and address of the sender written on the parcel, will be acknowledged and most gratefully received—I

[Parcels of books should be sent direst to Mrs. Forge and not to the Spectator Office.—En. Spectator.]