4 OCTOBER 1902, Page 30

A SIMPLER LIFE.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1

Srs,—Will you allow me to point out that the advice attributed by your correspondent "J. N. B." in the Spectator of September 27th to Ruskin is the first of two maxims of William Morris, which (to quote exactly) runs thus :—" Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful " ? The second maxim is,—" No work which cannot be done with pleasure in the doing is worth doing." They are to be found in one of his" Lectures on Art," —" Making the Best of It."—I am, Sir, &c., M. A. CLAY.

West House, Cambridge.