THE DICKENS CENTENARY.
LTO TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1
Sta,—In the Spectator of August 13th you mention an admirable scheme put forward by the Strand Magazine for a memorial to Charles Dickens on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. As the appeal is sure to be eagerly responded to by the whole English- speaking world, it would be well, it seems to me, to fix upon some further object, in accordance with the feelings of the great author, upon which to expend surplus money after the well-being of his grandchildren has been secured. Might not this object be the purchase of an open space to be used as a playground for poor London children? Dickens was once himself a poor London child, and his sympathy for them and for their needs breathes strongly in all his works.—I am, Sir, dc., CONSTANCE HILL. Grove Cottage, Frognat, Hampstead.
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