30 JULY 1881, Page 14

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIE, — to many minds,

one of the most useful and certainly one of the most pleasing of the good works performed by Dean Stanley was his interest in children, as manifested by those annual gatherings on the "Innocents' Day" of each succeeding year, would you kindly allow me to suggest to those who have the guardianship of his papers, that by placing in a volume those unique and charming sermons of his which were delivered in the Abbey on those occasions, they will be conferring a public benefit, and doing not a little to extend his usefulness and perpetuate his fame P Certainly, those gems of addresses are far too valuable to remain in manuscript, or to be partly lost in fugitive publications.—I am, Sir, &c.,