BRAILLE BOOKS FOR THE BLIND. [To THE EDITOR OF THE
" SPECTATOR."] you allow me to ask your readers, when deciding upon the direction which their charitable Christmas and New Year gifts should take, to bear in mind the special requirements of the National Institute for the Blind in regard to the preparation and printing of books in the Braille type, which are of particular use and interest to the soldiers and sailors who have lost their sight in the war and at the same time of value to the general blind reading public? Your space nowadays is so limited that I will not enlarge upon the subject further than to say that the Braille books produced by the National Institute for the Blind must, on account of their bulk, the expensive processes involved— rendered doubly or in some cases trebly more expensive by the increase in cost of the materials—and the low price at which they are sold, be produced at a very considerable loss. I hope that many of your readers will be led by these few lines to send a contribution in aid of this department of our work.—I am, Sir, &c., ARTHUR PEARSON, President. National Institute for the Blind, 226 Gt. Portland Street, W.
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