7 OCTOBER 1911, Page 33

AN ESSAY SOCIETY.

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIR, I should be very grateful for an opportunity of bringing to the notice of any of your readers to whom it may be of interest an essay society (now in the twenty-sixth year of its existence) in which from time to time there occur vacancies. The object of the society is to afford practice in writing and criticism. Essays are written on assigned subjects periodically and passed round by post from member to member.

The number of members is limited ; both men and women are eligible—the society at present consisting of about equal numbers of each sex—and several are university graduates. I shall be happy to send a copy of the rules, &e., to any of your readers who may wish to be proposed for membership.—I am, Sir, &c.,