14 APRIL 1900, Page 17

GIVING.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sin,—Your remarks on the annoyances and difficulties which beset public giving on the part of the rich may be illustrated by what I believe is a fact,—the existence of a catalogue of names and addresses compiled from various subscription lists, missionary reports, &c., and published and sold for the benefit of the issuers of "appeals," under some such title as "Twenty Thousand Charitable Persons" ! A not unkindly Nemesis on the departure from a principle which most of us acknowledge,—viz., that the noblest form of giving is anonymous. Is not the remedy for the difficulty as true as