13 APRIL 1912, page 17

Boswell's Little Mistake.

[To TUX EDITOR or T1119 " SPECTATOR.1 SIR, — Boswell's inability to see anything moving in the writings of Dr. Johnson may have been owing to a lack of sympathetic imagination.......

Fri The Editor Or Tue Nsrserkroa."1

SIR,—The N.E.D. needs no defence, and the C.O.D. must answer for itself. But when one of your correspondents identifies the terminal sounds of " dear" and " idea " he merely......

" Religion In France."

[To THE EDITOR OF TUN "SPUCTATOR.") have talked with intelligent men of the middle classes in France, and have not found, as a rule, that they deny the Christian faith. Many of......

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correspondent " Scot" should test the orthodoxy of the Oxford English Dictionary by reference to its own pages, not to those of our Concise Oxford Dictionary. The latter is not......

" Infinite " And " In Finitely."

[TO THE EDITOR OF TIES "SPECTATOR:I fail altogether to understand why you should admits for a single moment that you " stand corrected," and have been guilty of " a vulgarism,"......