29 MARCH 1930, Page 23

IRON RAILINGS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

Sur,—A. short time ago a lady from the Western American States, who was writing a series of travel books for children sent to Ireland for photographs to be used as illustrations ; she was particularly anxious to have some views of iron gates and railings, explaining that such a relic of mediaevalisin would be of the greatest interest to the little Californians who had never seen anything of the kind in their own country.