29 DECEMBER 1888, Page 15

CLOSED CATHEDRALS. — LADY - G - UIDES.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sia,—The Dean of Lincoln asked for suggestions as to how, without cost to the reduced incomes of cathedral bodies, to afford what the public ask for,—more peeps at our great national churches for the public who cannot well afford to pay for the privilege. I dare humbly offer a suggestion to which the lady-guide movement lends interest and force. Would it not be possible to find in any cathedral town a number of educated and devout women willing to form a committee, and, subject to Dean and Chapter, to undertake the educational task of conducting, free of charge, sightseers round the sacred buildings at certain times of certain days in the year,—say, at least once a week P—I am, Sir, &c., H. D. R