THE KYRLE SOCIETY.
[To TILE EDITOR 01 TEE "SPECTATOR."J Slit,-0 wing to your kindness in inserting the appeal on behalf of the Literature Distribution Branch of the Kyrle Society, we have been in a position to satisfy about a hundred and fifty applicants for books, papers, and magazines during last year, and we should be glad to receive more applications and more books at our office, 14 Nottingham Place, W., addressed, "The Hon. Sec." Books of all sorts are welcome (except theologi- cal controversy); but it is gratifying to find that all our appli- cants beg for the best books in fiction, history, and biography. Shakespeare, Dickens, Scott, George Eliot, Mayne Reid, Miss Yonge, and such works are invariably asked for ; while the lighter Midsummer and Christmas numbers of periodicals are read with pleasure and comfort by the sick.
Every application is considered on its own merits, and the range is wide, from the lonely invalid whose means (narrowed by sickness and misfortune) do not permit the luxury of buying or hiring books, to the vast infirmaries and hospitals which count their inmates by hundreds, through all the grades of Men's and Women's Institutes, Boys' and Girls' Clubs, Nurses' Libraries (where all technical books are greatly valued), seamen on long voyages, the blind, the East-End clubs, and village schools. The only plea required by the Kyrie Society is that the books are needed, and that if sent they will reach their destination. For this reason it is a great convenience if full particulars are given when the application is made. Then, if suitable books are in our hands, they are sent. We are sure those who love reading will not let those hands remain empty, but will send us " just one
more book."—I am, Sir, tte., EMMA G. Busk:,
Hon. Sec., Literature Branch.
The Kyrle Society, 14 Nottingham Place, W.
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