24 NOVEMBER 1894, Page 16

THE WORD "PARSON."

[TO Ts EDITOR OP THZ SPECTATOR."] SIRj" A good man was ther of religioun, And was a pore Persoun of a toun." Chaucer applied the word with all respect to one of the secular beneficed clergy.—I am, Sir, &o., A. P. DA.WSON.

School House, Kibworlh, Leicester, November 19th.