POINTS FROM LETTERS
THE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE.
The Conference of the Library Association, which takes place this year in Cambridge, September 22nd-27th, should be of considerable interest to those connected with Hospitals. On Tuesday, 23rd, at 2.15-4 p.m., the subject of Hospital Libraries will be discussed. There will be a short paper on the history and practice of this work as done in Great Britain ; and in addition there will be the privilege and value of hearing the two following speakers
(a) Miss Ostenfeld, Organizer of the Hospital Library Service, Central Library, Odense, Denmark. Title of paper—" Collabor- ation between public libraries and hospitals in Denmark." (Opening the discussion on the possibility of applying this method in England.)
(6) Miss Perrie Jones, Hospital Librarian, Public Library, St. Paul's, Minnesota, U.S.A.—paper--" The Psychological value to Patients of Hospital Libraries." to write for further details to :—The Secretary of the Library AssociatiOn, 26 Bedford Square, London, W.C. 1.
BROK.F.N SPECTACLES.
How is this for a coincidence ? On Friday last, August 29th, I dropped icy folders and broke one glass ; these I sent to the tradesman from whom they were purchased, asking that they might be returned as soon as a new glass could be fitted. Not receiving them by evening I sent for them and was then told they would not be ready till next Tuesday. This is on all fours with the case quoted by your correspondent, Thos. Carr Powell, on page 283 of last week's Spectator.-0. G.
THE " FORTNIGHTLY " AND THE "REVIEW OF REVIEWS."
It has recently been stated in certain sections of the Press that the Fortnightly Review and the Review of Reviews are about to be amalgamated. This is not the ease. The proprietors of the Fortnightly Review have, indeed, assumed control of the Review of Reviews, and they will continue to publish it as a separate " Review " under the title given to it by its founder, W. T. Stead. The Fortnightly Review will remain unchanged and independent. As very many constant readers of both the .Fortnightly Review and the Review of Reviews are concerned in this matter, I shall be obliged if you can find room in your columns for this statement of the exact position.—H. H. L. Dicitsoiv, 13 Buckingham Street, London, W.C. 2.
SWALLOWS.
In your issue of the 16th ult. a correspondent complains of the dearth of swallows. I have noticed the same at my place in Sussex, where only one pair of swallows has nested in an outhouse I But here, in Ireland, we have a larger number of swallows than I have ever seen before, every stable and cow-house containing three or four nests and literally scores of the old and young birds hawking all day round the house. Possibly the swallows have found out what is dawning on many of us, that Ireland is now a far pleasanter country to live in than England, with its present enormous taxation, and encouragement, in doles, to idleness I—W. TOWER TOWNSHEND, Myross Wood Leap, Co. Cork.
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