THE NEED OF BOOKS IN GERMAN UNIVERSITIES. [To ma EDITOR
OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
of us who are in touch with teachers in German universities are aware of the difficulties they are now suffering through their inability to buy English books, or subscribe to English journals, with the mark at its present depreciated value. This applies, of course, doubly to teachers of English. At the same time there are in this country some hundreds of men who have been materially assisted in their crireerby having enjoyed the generous hospitality which the German universities extended to foreign students in the days before the War. May I seggest that they may now make some slight acknowledgment of the benefits they then received by presenting a recent English- book of importance to the Seminar of their special subject in the university in which they studied? Such a gift would, I am sure, be most gratefully received.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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