3 MAY 1913, Page 17

R. L. STEVENSON ON BOX HILL.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Just after reading the article on Box Hill in the Spectator of April 26th I came upon the following in one of R. L. Stevenson's letters from Vailima, dated April 17th, 1894, to George Meredith : " I heard with a great deal of interest the news of Box 'Hill. And so I understand it is to be enclosed! Allow me to remark, that seems a far more barbaric trait of manners .than the most barbarous of ours. We content ourselves with cutting off an occasional head."- " The Letters Of Robert Louis Stevenson," &c., vol. ii. p. 315