27 APRIL 1912, Page 33

WOODEN HOUSES.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Your correspondents say that wooden houses burn down, and therefore are neither safe nor lasting. If this is so, Why, then, are there in certain parts of England numbers of wooden houses dating back to the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries? In Tewkesbury and Droitwich all the old houses have wooden frames ; they were built hundreds of years ago, and still stand to the confusion of your correspondents.—I am,