14 JULY 1923, Page 15

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] regret to see from

the lists you give of books suitable for father, mother, son and daughter that father is the only one of the party who is accredited with any taste for literature. May I suggest the undermentioned books as suitable for either father, mother, son or daughter :—Spinoza's Ethics (" Every- man" Edition) ; 'Sir Frederick Pollock's Spinoza : His Life and Philosophy ; The World Crisis, Winston Churchill ; An Anthology of Modern Verse (Methuen) ; Alice Meynell's Poems (complete edition) ; The Commandment of Moses, Stephen McKenna.—I am, Sir, &c.

A DAUGHTER.