The Noble Town
SIR,-1 have just noticed, in a letter in the Spectator of December 25th, the old fallacy of Edinburgh's name deriving from Edwin repeated once more. The prefix is British "......
Candidates For Holy Orders
M.A. [Name and address supplied.]......
Spectator Competition No. 205 Set By Edward Blishen...
No. 205 Set by Edward Blishen A prize of £5, which may be divided, is offered JrO an extract (not more than 12 lines) from one of the following little-known poems : To His Coy......
From Holmes's Casebook
SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 202 Report by J. P. W. Monaco In the opening paragraphs of several of the Sherlock Holmes stories reference is made to imaginary cases which the public......
Light Railways
NIGEL J. WATT.......
Death Of The Topee
SIR,—Three cheers for Strix. I have often dallied with the idea of writing a letter on topees, pith or sun helmets, and here at last is my opportunity. Are they still worn ? Are......
Sir, — In His Charming And Otherwise Unexcep- Tionable...
and Mr. Ladbroke " in your issue of January 8th, Mr. James Pope-Hennessy perpetuates a popular error which seems to date from W. H. Loftie's History of Kensington (1884).......
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