15 JULY 1905, page 17

Wish To Draw Attention Through Your Columns To The Misuse

of the verb "to lay" in place of the verb "to lie." I have no grammar-book to refer to, but I take it that the two verbs are conjugated thus : "lie, lying, lay, lain," and "lay,......

Sin,—i Send The Following Quotation From Maeterlinck. It...

the hope that it may interest other mothers who may be slowly realising the necessity of not faltering "in our own task of joy and thanksgiving," spoken of in the Spectator of......

[to The Editor Of Thr Spicotator." J

lately came across the following passage in Sir Henry Maine's "Popular Government" :— " There are few things more remarkable and, in their way, more instructive than the......

Letter.

Sin, — As a stamp-collector of eighteen years' standing. I was much interested to read the letters appearing in your issue of May 20th, 1905, under the title of "A Million......

Sculling At Midnight.

A darkling furlong down a leafy lane : And lo I the open valley, the river's shining reaches, The boat-house, and the abandoned rafts again. And there my skiff lies waiting, a......

The Ecclesiastical Commissioners Having Sent Their...

to the Prizes Fund, and the Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers their promised prize of 450, the amount of subscriptions and fees received up to July 13th for the Cheap......