14 DECEMBER 1901, page 16

M Usic.

THE LAST OF THE OLD IMPRESARIOS. THE recent death, after a long and chequered career, of Colonel Mapleson, known to the fathers and grandfathers of the present generation of......

[to The Editor Op The " Spectator." J Snt,—how Tremendous

a gulf it is that separates rich from poor, how total the lack of sympathy, when such a proposal as that put forward in Mr. Murray's letter in the Spectator of December 7th can......

Poetry.

WITHERINGTON AT COLENSO. [The well-known war correspondent, Mr. Bennet Burleigh, relates in the Daily Telegraph an incident, which was reported to him by the Boers, of a British......