LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2343, 28 December 1914, Page 8

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Is. FOR AN ALMANAC! WHAT NEXT? Sir, —In forwarding the almanacs _j-ou refer to I have not .met the response the is worthy of. Failure of response does not fill the bill of coldehoulderism. I have niei with arguments in actual • opposition to the sclieme. Those dealing with the value of the pictures need nob be considered, but whun it comes to authoritative argument averring that the Belgian Fund has been overdone, and the public are tired of it, the time has arrived for refutation. AVe are now in the middle oj Christmas festivities. What festivities would have been possible had theBelgians been minded, and there was nothing to stop them, to think 6afety lay in the direction of a compact with Germany. Even.as Isaac \vas offered as a token of the human possibility of infinite faith, soißelgium volunteered her all-and-all in resistance of the most consummate aggression that ever can and ever will be made in the way of tho onward march of civilised democrarisation of cosmic government. Need I apologise for the statement that the Belgian Fund has not yet been.seen the last of? Then as to my effort to enhance it by getting a, decent .price for the almanacs I Of course, 6e. will hot be asked for tho- whole 500. "Autumn Gold" is, however, a picture well worth the money, more especially considering in the garb offered it is not unworthy of a place in the best drawing-room, not even'excepting tho Governor's, and I seriously throw it out as a suggestion that His Excellency should give cs. for one of them and placo it in his drawing-room, as an example to tho others., There ~is no advertisement'on any of the almfuiacsj ■they are copies of pictures by the best, masters, done up in the most delicate manner, and the inoro one sees of them the more their aestheticisin 43raws the cultured mind to Spiking for their over-present influence. The heading "Belgian Almanac—Motto for 1915— Who giveth unto the least of these my brethren, giveth unto me," should form a useful rominder that- .Belgium has claims, and that ; though least among the natione, she is not least among the builders of the arts of peacev-I am, etc., ■ HENRY BODLEY. December'. 25, 1914.. :