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afford to pay the enhanced price created by their tariff.

America, with its huge tariff more than doubling the cost, takes a greater quantity of British goods than any other country ; while the Colonies take them freely, and Britain itself alone lags behind. Ladies will soon realise all this improvement in British productions if they will insist upon their dressmakers showing patterns of British-made goods, and they will find that not only is money to be saved in this way, but the stimulus of their demand, reacting upon the producer, will result in a continuously improving selec- Tuxedo Park, Orange County, N.Y., U.S.A.

E. W. BRABROOK, C.B., F.S.A. rye T. EDITOR Or TD■ 4.13rsamoe."3 TENNYSON A SOUTH COUNTRY MANP [TO T. EDIT. Or THR ..97ZOTATOL1 Snt,—I am sure your correspondent, Mimi L. V. Hodgkin (Spectator, April 16th) will not wish to give currency to a Sable, or to hurt the feelings of a whole county who are proud of their late Laureate. Tennyson was not a South Country man, and in no sense can he be said to have naturally given to his poetry a South Country atmosphere. Those of us who were brought up within touch of Somersby, and learned the quaint Doric in which he wrote his " Northern Farmer," know how full-breathed of Lincoln. shire weld and fen and marsh and sea-coast scenes is much of the poet's work, and recall with what delight to his last days be would talk " Linkishire " and speak of Lincolnshire days and ways—I am, Sir, Sze., H. D. RA.WNSLEY.