10 OCTOBER 1925, page 22

. Matthew Arnold's Signal Elm '

[To the Editor of the SpEcrAros..] aspect of the surrounding country has beep completely changed within living memory . . " Two well-knoWn elegise poems f Of Matthew Arnold-'......

• - A Tame Rook

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR] Sin, — Can you find space in your paper for yet another bird story, which I think may be of interest to some of your readers ?- " In a storm,......

Jazz

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Will you allow me to protest most strongly against the now almost universal use of the 'epithet " jazz " to describe what is really......

Pole Traps And Rats

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Pole traps, in addition to numerous other victims, kill brown owls, whose favourite food is young rats. Rats eat eggs, young birds and......

Extract From Letter

THE HUMANE SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS : Mr. Leonard Hill writes : " The Duchess of Hamilton (Spectator, August 1st) affirms that she personally timed with a stop-watch that evidence......

Wild Life 'and The Collector

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his excellent article in the Spectator of the 19th September, " E. M. N." writes that the " disastrous slowness with which it is formed......

£100 Prize For. An Essay On - Unemployment An American ,...

of the Spectator, Mr.. -Gabriel Wells; his generously offered a prize of £100 for se- essay on "Unemployment : Its Cause and Remedy." The maximum length of an essay is 1,2(K)......