20 JANUARY 1933, Page 17

POINTS FROM LETTERS

RUSSIA'S FOOD.

You refer to " Russia with its potential export surplus of wheat and other cereals." It certainly has exported large quantities of food in Czarist and recent years ; but millions of its inhabitants were semi-starved, as the terrible death-rate has always shown. In the long-settled Western Hemisphere, a country with a very high birth-rate cannot possibly have enough food for all its people--B. DUNLOP, M.B., 171 queen's Gate, S.W. 7

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE,

I should be grateful if any of your reader could inform Me where I could obtain, and at what price, a copy of Facts Relating to Caspar Hauser, by Philip Henry, Fourth Earl of Stanhope, published in London in 1836.—Etraiima C. MERRY (Mrs.), 82 George Street, W.1.