14 JANUARY 1928, page 18

A Change Of Diet [to The Editor Of The Sieciaron - .]

- ''Snt,—Two - friends of mine, mother and daughter, were in the daily habit of feeding a robin with crumbs and other morsels during the winter months. On a certain warm spring......

A Biography Of The Late Earl Halsbury

[To the Editor of the SpE6r4eron..] SIR,-=A biography of the late Earl ifilsbury, Lord Chancellor of England, Is in Course. of Preparation. The work has been entrusted by the......

Poetry

An Echo DEAR one, dear one, who you are I shall not say, for I know not. The thousand beauties you have been My eyes have seen and have forgot. All the wisdom you have laiown......

Summings Up

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With reference to the epitaphs quoted in the corre- spondence column of your issue of January 7th, the following may be new to-your......

Curiosities Of Pronunciation

tion of Fowey which 'puzzles your 'correspondent, Mr. King, • is an illustration of the fact that, often, what seems to be a corruption is actually a surviVal. In a quotation......

Roadside ,,signs

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] • Sin,—A recent correspondent drew attention in your columns to the disfigurement of the cramtrylide-eaused - by roadside advertising placards.......

[to The Editor' Of The Spectator.]

• Sia,—Many of your correspondents have written of hunting from what they consider may be the fox's point . of view,. but no one yet has attempted to "get inside the mind" of......

Fox-hunting [to The Editor Of The Sreetatort.1 Sir,—on...

of fox-hunting ; one of your correspon- dents drew a comparison between it and bull fighting, and it recalled an old hunting song to me that we often - sang after " mess " fifty......