14 JULY 1923, Page 14

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

Sia,—Your discussion of the Holiday Book Box in your last number interested me. How would the following list do, say

for a maiden aunt ? Kinglake's Eothen ; Handley Cross or one of the Jorrocks books ; Proust's Du CM de Chez Swann, Vol. I.; Squire's Collection of Modern English Verse ; Amiel's Journal Intim ; Walter Page's Letters.—I am, Sir, &e.,