7 FEBRUARY 1891, Page 18

BOOKS FOR THE BLIND.

ITC THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J

SIR,—May I point out to Mr. Nevill and your readers that an Association already exists which pays blind people to write Braile books ? The British and Foreign Blind Association, founded by the late Dr. Armitage, includes this among its objects. Last year, sixty-four blind . people, trained in the classes of the Indigent Blind Visiting Society, earned about 2402 in this way from the above Association.

I may add that the great loss which these two Societies, in common with other charities for the blind, have sustained in the recent death of Dr. Armitage, gives them an additional claim to the support of the public.—I am, Sir, &c.,