The British Museum, like other public collections, is open on
Sunday afternoons. On a recent Sunday I went there, hoping to spend a profitable afternoon—truly within its " hospitable walls," for outside it was raining with tropical violence. A black pall hung over_ London, and as I entered the front hall I found disconsolate visitors wandering about in semi-darkness. I asked an official why the light was not turned on. To my surprise he :replied that on Sunday afternoons there was no lighting-up ! Subsequently this"stateinent was confirmed, and I 'was informed that Sunday is 'alWays a dies non for lighting, as theelectricians are off duty. Hit is desirable to throw open our national collections on Sunday, and most of us are surely of opinion that it is, could not the Trustees be persuaded to provide the necessary lighting ? What object ran there be in admitting visitors if they are unable to -see anything ?
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