7 APRIL 1923, Page 16

AMERICAN BOOKS IN LONDON.

ETo the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

Sia,—We notice that your reviewer " Americanus," in your issue of March 24th, says : "To buy all but a fewAmerican books in Europe one has to go to Paris. They are not in London." We venture to think that the vast majority of American books are obtainable in London, and much more readily here than in Paris, when you remember that all the principal American publishers maintain offices in this city. Among them you will find Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, Harpers, Dodd, Mead, and Co., Doubleday, Page, and Co., Houghton Mifflin, Brentano's, Seribners, Lippincott—to mention only a few ; and we might add that we also have been established in this city for the sale of our publications for more than