HOSPITALS BUILT WITH BOOKS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 5, 21 January 1909, Page 7

HOSPITALS BUILT WITH BOOKS.

Queen Alexandra, in deciding to devote t:> the cause of charity llio proceeds of the sale of the hook she recently published, is only fallowing in tl.'.(.>. footsteps of many other authors and authoresses., royal and otherwise. (Jarnion Sylva, Queen of Kotimania, has practically built one hospital by the sa.ie of her stories, and lias largely benefited several others. Canon lie tiling handed over the whole of the money tie received lor the copyright of certain .sermons to the British Hospital for .incurables and the, Cordon .Hoys' Home. Miss Charlotte Yonge built a school at .Pott, near Winchester, out of the proceeds of "The Heir of Bedclylfe" ; while the profits from another of her books, 'The Daisy Chair.," sufficed to found and partially endow St. .Barnabas College/ iXori'oik .Island, for the Meiancsian Mission.

The immense Northfield Schools and Colleges for the training of missionaries and preachers were erected out of the profits derived from the sale of Moodv and Sanke\'s "Sacred Songs am' Solos.'' Miss Ada Ulloi Bayly ("Kdna Lyall") built St. Peter's Church, Eastbourne, with part, of the money she received for "Donovan" and "We Two." She also presented a fine peal of bells to the neighboring church of St. Saviour, and christened thorn after the heroes of her books —"Eric," "Hugo," and "l)ono\ an." As a writer for charities, however, Count Tolstoy comes out an easy first. The profits from almost his first complete book, "What Must We J)r> Then?" were devoted to relieving the potcrty of the dwellers in the Moscow slums, and since then he has consistently .-el'iised to benefit in any way whatsoever hy the sale of his numerous works, preferring to devote the whole, of the proceeds to philanthropic purposes.