The Village Library Problem. 105 economies likely to result from the recent improvements in electric traction, but it might be possible to get vans carrying their own motive power, thus dispensing with both horses and drivers, and considerably reducing expenditure without impairing efficiency. Here, then, is a practical scheme, well worth discussion and possible realization, and we should be glad to have county councillors, librarians and others bringing pressure to bear on the Government in order to produce the necessary slight changes in the law. Could not Sir George Trevelyan be induced to intro- duce proper provisions in the Scottish Local Government Bill now being prepared, so that this scheme, or an alternative one, could be tried in the North ? JAMES D. BROWN.
