16 DECEMBER 1922, page 17

The Elusive Shakespeare.

[To the Editor of the SrEcTAToa.1 Sin,—In reply to Lord Sydenham. If Dickens had shown sympathy with Uriah Heep or Pecksniff I should have said his mentality, as revealed and so......

Dactylic Verse 1n English.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—In reply to Mr. Strachey's challenge, Mr. Edmund Gosse might have quoted, as an example of English verse in "pure dactylics," Heber's......

An Appeal For The Devastated Regions Of France.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sift,—I am working for the Devastated Regions of France, and have sent out 5,000 things already. I am collecting again, and if you would put a......

Clothing For Near Eastern Refugees. [to The Editor Of The

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In answer to the appeal in your columns for clothing for the Near Eastern refugees a generous response was made. Owing to shortness of time it was found......

Schliemann And Troy.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. C. M. Haines does a real service to scholarship in reminding the present generation of the amazing story of the life of Heinrich......

The Referendum.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Has Switzerland the big industrial areas of England, where Communism may be comprehensible; if not defensible, and are you not rather......

The Britisii Postal Agencies In China. [to The Editor Of

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The announcement that our Government is carrying into effect the proposal to discontinue its postal agencies throughout China has been received with great......