18 AUGUST 1923, Page 14

[To the Editor of the SPECTATon.1 SIR,—The correspondence in your

pages regarding " Holiday Reading " recalls a remark of Charles Fox when it was suggested to him that " a certain spot in the grounds of St. Anne's would be a charming place for dawdling a morning away with a book : " Yes, very," replied Fox, " but why with a book ? "—I am, Sir, &c., Headington, Oxford. CONSTANCE E. BEVAN.