BRITISH MUSEUM POSTCARDS.
(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Like your correspondent Mr. G. L. Burton I hastened to get sets of these wonderful postcards. I wrote to a friend in town to go at once and get them. The coffins, mummies, and Book of the Dead sets and the Japanese colour prints are beyond praise, not only for their intense interest, but for the beautiful examples they afford of reproduction and colour printing work, which I am glad to see are all English. The Persian, Indian, and Chinese sets prove that in colour printing our English printing firms are not surpassed either by Germany or America. These postcards, with the valuable little dissertations attached to each set, have given me many hours of unalloyed pleasure in the past few days. I am sure all your readers owe you a measure of thanks for your article of July 15th. It would be an ungrate- ful act if one did not give thanks to the British Museum
officials as well, for surely these postcards must have involved much labour and care.—I am, Sir, &c.,
Wark worth, Northumberland. Gzoans H. GLENDENNING.
[It is solely to the enlightened officers of the Museum, and not in any way to us, that thanks should be given.—En. Spectator.]
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