Sm,—Although so young may I dare write to yon on
this matter? I am a pupil of a well-known secondary school. Difficult as it is with " prep" and a public "examination " the girls of my form (V) have a keen interest in national and international affairs. The school is evacuated and many of the girls, living in billets, are expected to spend much of their time helping their hostesses. Yet they nearly all read and few attempt "slushy fiction." A few travel" twenty miles from London every day. These spend their journey in reading, and not all their even- ings are spent in "• prep." Chiefly among these, but among others too, The Spectator is passed round.
A few weeks ago I bought Tolstoy's War and Peace. A list of girls waiting to read it has sprung up. I am waiting for a friend to finish Karl Marx's Das Kapital. I may add that these girls are the daughters of working men, the greater proportion of whom do not pay fees. Perhaps Elizabeth Dunn will not be so disappointed if she views the rising generatio as Emmeline Lawrence suggests.
A SCHOOL GIRL.
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