We so much welcome the letters from our readers, that any comment on them which seems even indirectly to savour of criticism is to be eschewed. But we cannot pass over the letter on canary breeding received today from "A Bird Lover", We would fain hold it up as pattern even to the professional lists who occasionally send letters to the editor." It may be explained that every paper has its own style for the spelling of controversial words, printing of dates and so forth, Alsb, even what to foreigners would be good INS. usually has to be typed for Chinese compositors, in order to save mistakes in setting. Apart from these two requirements there fare slips in punctuation, ete., to be corrected. So that there is good deal of detail work to be done on each letter before it goes to the printer. Now for "A Bird Lover's" letter. "To begin with, it was so beautifully written that to type it would have been an insult, But, more wonderful, there was not one solitary correction to be The style through oven down to the "I have we had so immi May we say that the writer must be 'a person of great observation, which no doubt explains the success recorded in canary breeding? In that pursuit we confess we are not specially interested, But we shall always remember "A Bird Lover"? a8 our star correspondent,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.