6 JUNE 1896, Page 16

THE SCILLY ISLES.

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR:1'

Sin,—May I be allowed to express the grateful thanks of some of your readers to your correspondent who wrote concerning the Scilly Isles in the Spectator of May 16th? Far as the cry thence is from the Midlands, where I write, that letter decided two of us to visit the islands on the very earliest possible opportunity—and our visit is just over. It was very delightful to meet at Tregarthen's Hotel two others whom the same communication had induced to visit Scilly. We found the islands all, and more than all, that your correspondent had pictured them. It was rather saddening to read on the return journey a Times article containing suggestions which, if adopted, would inevitably and very speedily reduce them in holiday times at least to the deplorable condition of the Isle