TO OUR READERS.
The present issue of the " SPECTATOR " is produced under the limitation of the supply of paper made obligatory by the Government restrictions. But though we have been compelled to make certain reductions, we have been able to supply our readers with approximately as much reading-matter as before. There are fewer pages, but there are a good many more words on each page, owing to our annexation of half of our margins. At the same time, the print has been altered in only two sections of the paper—in the letters and the reviews. A great saving in paper will be accomplished by avoiding the waste caused by printing unnecessary copies. We know we can rely upon " our readers to help us here. One of the chief ways in which they can do so is by informing the Newsagents, Booksellers, or Railway Bookstalls from which they are accustomed to purchase their paper that they will want a copy of the " SPECTATOR" each week. That will enable the seller to know exactly how many copies to order, and thus avoid returns and the consequent waste. Speaking generally, the " SPECTATOR " has not been modified or altered in any essential. We would ask those of our readers who may feel inclined to criticize unfavourably the small modifications observable in our issue of to-day to withhold such criticism till they have had experience of them for a month or six weeks. We venture to say that by that time they will not notice the change, except possibly to approve of it.
• Should our readers find any difficulty in obtaining the " SPECTATOR" as regularly and as easily as before, we trust they will at once write to The Manager, " THE SPECTATOR," 1 Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C.
