20 DECEMBER 1919, Page 13

POOR MEN'S PALACES.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The article "Poor Men's Palaces" in your issue of the 13th inst. brought to my mind a recollection, dating back some thirty years or more, of the beautiful photographs by that accomplished artist the late Mrs. Cameron, which rendered negligible the tedium of waits at )3rockenhurst 3iu.Aicu on journeys to and from Freshwater. I wonder if thust graphs still make pleasant the station walls. I :lope so.—I