14 JULY 1923, Page 15

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My choice would be

as follows :—A Modern Anthology, edited by Thomas Caldwell, or An Anthology of Lyrics from Shakespeare's Time to Present Day. A volume of Jane Austen's works (that in the Century pocket edition, con- taining three works in one volume) or Pickwick Papers. A Russian-English Interlinear book, as I am trying to learn Russian. A favourite volume of Kipling's, probably Kim. Babbitt or Damascus Gate. Then the sixth, the most difficult to choose—Homer's Odyssey, or Plato's Republic, or Mon- taigne's Essays. Thus I am suited, as far as possible, for all moods and all weathers (Russian being for wet days).—

I am, Sir, &c., A. M. Bow. Tower House, Caistor, Lincs.