13 FEBRUARY 1904, page 16

The Russians In Finland.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — During the present crisis in the Far East it is perhaps natural that more stress should be laid on the foreign policy than on the......

Authentic Blunders.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—A clerical friend assures me that at a National school in Radnorshire the curate asked one of the boys to finish the text beginning......

Tennyson And The Mo'allaka.t.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Something has gone wrong—perhaps owing to the accidental omission of a line by the printer between the bottom of p. 221 and the top of......

The Chinese Labour Question. [to The Editor Of The...

Sin, — Permit me to offer as an antidote to Mr. Lea's quota tion in your issue of January 30th from a mining engineer's letter an extract from one that I received this morning......

Retrievers And Woodcocks.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR.'] SIR, — In your interesting article in the Spectator of January 30th, "Woodcocks near the Sea," your writer appears surprised that his "highly......

A Dog's Fidelity.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Last week a gamekeeper named Henry Osmond, in the employ of Lord Falmouth, was fatally shot in a poaching affray at the Tregothnan......

Fox And Hounds.

[To THY EDITOR OF THY "SPECTATOR...I Sza, — I was lately the witness of an incident that may be of interest to such of your readers as care for the lives of the hunted. A fox,......

[to The Editor Op The "spectator."]

SIR,—I should not in the least grudge the money that would be required for a State opera, and should, indeed, welcome a proposal for the reasonable expenditure of public money......