Absent-mindedness. [to The Editor Of The " Spectator. " ]...
" absent-mindedness " is used by some of your correspondents as equivalent to "heedlessness." Adopt- ing this wide construction of the term, I hope I may trespass on your space......
[to The Editor Op The " Spectator."]
SIR,—If you admit the following " owre true tale" to be an illustration of absent-mindedness, I think it will be accepted as the culminating record. A gentleman returned this......
[to The Editor Op The " Bpectat014"] Sir,—whether The...
story comes under the head of absent-mindedness, or is a belated instance of the kind of translation generally ascribed to school examinations, is perhaps too curious an......
[to The Editor Of The " Srecreton."] Sin,—while Wandering...
around the parish church of St. Helier, I came across this extraordinary inscription :—" To. the glory of God, and in memory of George Frederick de Carteret, his cousin, who......
Voluntary Schools.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPZCTATOR.'1 Sin,—In the article on " Voluntary Schools," in the Spectator- of August 31st, for which we Churchmen much thank you,. you anticipate that,......
[to The Editor Of The "spectator. "] Sir,-ab The Story About
the inscription in the Peshawar cemetery has again appeared, permit me to send you a copy of the inscription, which I made in 1894, while chaplain of Peshawar. " Erected to the......
[to The Editor Of The " Spectator."]
Sin,—Though possibly not an example of absent-mindedness, an inscription which I have seen in the cemetery at Doyles- town, U.S.A., is a singular one, at any rate in one sense......
[to The Editor Op The "spectator. "] Sir,—among All The...
instances of absence of mind given by your correspondents, I have read no better one than that told of my late brother-in-law, Sir John Crampton, when Ambassador at St.......
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