31 JANUARY 1891, Page 30

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

literature for the blind First, the Braille type is excellent, and it is quite easy for any one of average brain to grasp the system. Second, though the supply of amusing books is far too small, it is not so utterly deficient as the writer thinks.

If there could be an Association formed for the object of paying blind people to write Braille books for their brethren, a great boon would be granted to the workers and to the readers. Each member of the Association might give one Braille book a year. I am willing to be editor of the books. If the Braille book comes to more than El, I will make up the -deficit. There are many blind people who write Braille well and quickly. I myself have books written for me in Braille by a blind man. Is it asking too much to beg the help of those who are fortunate in. possessing the means of knowledge that sight grants, to help to widen this channel of instruction and -culture for those mortals who have "wisdom at one entrance