16 FEBRUARY 1924, page 14

Extracts From Letters.

FAMILY INSURANCE.—" B." writes :—" Family Insur- ance—if you would so call it—has, I believe, been introduced in to New South Wales. The idea is this. As in the National Health......

British Empire Exhibition And Paying Guests.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In answer to the letter of your correspondent, Mr. A. F. Wallis, on the above - subject, the authorities of the British Empire Exhibition......

The "black-coated Poor " : The Menace Of Illness.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It has been said that" the only people who can command the best medical service are the Duke and the Dustman," and if " Duke " means a......

"the Grasshopper's Revenge."

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As no other explanation has been offered of" N. B. D.'s " jig-saw picture, "The Grasshopper's Revenge," described in the Spectator of......

The Devil's Jumps.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Surrey hills have become to so great an extent a playground for Londoners that the fate of any notable beauty spot in the county is......

Poetry.

DESERT. No hawthorn spray For the robin's red-rust throat ; No green gloom of hillside cell To darken the note Of the home-come nightingale ; No thicket for shy voiced wren And......