12 JANUARY 1924, page 16

Acrostics.

fro the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I, as a home reader of many years' standing, add a brief word in support of your Indian correspondent in expressing the hope that you......

Poetry.

THE KINGFISHER'S RETURN FROM BEING STUFFED. [Written for the children at Field Place, where Shelley was born.] LONG had our Kingfisher been Barred from his meadows green, From......

Extracts From Letters.

MONETARY REFORM.—Mr. William Henry Flavelle, Mont Millais, St. Helier, Jersey, writes : "It is with deep regret, as a reader in Australia of very nearly forty years' standing,......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sir,—as One Of Your

regular readers, I quite like the idea, suggested in your correspondence columns, that you should have an acrostic in each number. I am sure it would attract the younger......

Revision Of The Prayer-book.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With reference to your recent article on the above subject, the statement therein made that the proposed alterations, which have received......