THE CHILDREN'S LIBRARIES MOVEMENT.
(To rue EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR"] SIR,—The following resolution was proposed recently at a public meeting at South Lodge, Rutland Gate, by Mr. Edmund Geese. seconded by the Duchess of Hamilton, with the support of Viscountess Astor, M.P., Mr. G. Bernard Shaw, and Mr. Pett Ridge:—
"Resolved By the purchase and suitable furnishing of No. 13 Johnson Street, London, N.W. 1, to establish a Children's Library in the house of Charles Dickens's boyhood, which may serve as a model for other communities throughout England; And further, By the endowment of the said Library to ensure a permanent memorial of the beloved author which may help other children of the neglected neighbourhood to rise to an equal service of God and their fellow-men."
If sufficient funds are raised this house, which is the only boyhood residence of the famous author remaining, will be saved; otherwise the plan of demolishing it within the next few months will be carried out. It is only to those who may really love children or Dickens or books that this will make an appeal, but those who feel themselves in debt to any of those three sources will wdeome this opportunity to repay in the same happy, generous spirit in which they have been
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