VILLAGE EXHIBITIONS.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—I am greatly interested in the letter of Mrs. Isabel C. Ellis in your issue of January 13th, because it exactly confirms our ex- perience in the village of Cowden, Kent, last summer. With the same object in view we promoted an exhibition illustrating the history of the parish, once a centre of the Wealden iron industry. We had cannon cast for the army of Cromwell, fire backs, and various products of the local iron foundries, ox- yokes, a pillion-saddle, a spinning-wheel, the violoncello formerly used in the church, and a variety of articles, including portraits of village worthies and pictures of houses. The club, which is affiliated to the Village Clubs Association, which is supplying a want long felt in Kent as in other counties, benefited to the extent of £21 in cash and to an extent that cannot be calculated in stimulating the interest of the inhabi- tants in the history of their own homes.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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