13 AUGUST 1927, page 16

Ex-service Bulb-growers [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]...

true that there is a colony of ex-Service men engaged in growing bulbs, in the East of England. T. Cussen, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, is their address. I have dealt with them......

Those Narrow-toed Shoes [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]...

seems very strange that boot and shoe manufacturers cannot put upon the market sensible articles. So many firms seem to manufacture for men nothing but those narrow-toed shoes.......

Roads In The Lake District [to The Editor Of The

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your Motoring Correspondent " C. A. R." is not quite correct when he states in your issue of July 30th, p. 201, that there are many gates on the road to the......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

SIR,—One of the advantages of Mr. Grenfell's system is that, contrary to Mr. Nelson's assumption, it does inspire thought and originality. My own boy, so taught, now takes a......

Captive Animals [to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Have Read

with interest the correspondence on captive wild animals in the Spectator, and am prompted to add my own experience to that given. Last year I shot a lioness which charged my......

Schoolboy . Spelling

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia s —May I suggest to your correspondent, Mr. A. G. Grenfen, that the usual cause of badly formed writing is that the - writer's brain is......

Poetry

Misunderstood : a Fable I WROTE a little rime one day To help mean people on Life's way ; I sang in lyric inspiration Of sacrifices for the Nation. But, thriftless toil, I lost......