6 DECEMBER 1913, Page 31

Sir Herbert Tree, Sir Arthur W. Pinero, G. Bernard Shaw,

Sir J. Forbes-Robertson, Cyril Maude, Alfred Sutro, John Galsworthy„ .J. St. Los Strachey, Sir J. M. Bathe, Anthony Hope, Lord Courtney, Robert Bridges, Professor Hales, Professor Saints bury, W. J. Locke, R. B. Marston, Harold Begbie, Maxwell Gray, and E. V. 1011SD.

[It is greatly to be hoped that the blind throughout the English-speaking world will be made free of Shakespeare. Let anyone who loves his Shakespeare think for a moment what it would mean to be shut out from that field of delight, that haven of consolation. Surely such a boon is not to be denied to the blind because it will cost 2200 beyond the money already raised. If the blind have not for a Christmas present the assurance that the whole of Shakespeare is secured to them we shall be astonished indeed.—ED. Spectator.]