LTO THR EDITOR OF TUN "SPECTATOR."] Sru,—May I venture to
express the surprise, which I feel must be shared by many of your readers, that in the lengthy com- munications which have recently appeared in the Spectator on the above subject no reference whatever is made to the work conducted for a number of years past by the Children's Happy Evenings Association P This body, of which H.R.H. the Princess of Wales is president, and the Countess of Jersey the active leader, has carried the precious gift of wholesome, rational, recreating play into many of the sombrest corners of child-life in London. It ministers to more than twenty thousand poor children weekly at its hundred and twenty branches, and is so rapidly extending its beneficent work that this season preparations are afoot to open no fewer than fifty new branches. Surely, Sir, some little credit is due to such an Association as this when writing of the play- time necessities of London's slum children.—I am, Sir, &c.,
BECK.LES WLLLSON.
Authors' Club, 3 Whitehall Court, S. W.
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