Rabelais And Puritanism.
[TO TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In two articles in one number of the Spectator (May 26th) it is asserted that Puritanism is a necessary ingredient in the making of a......
[to The Editor Of The "spectator."] Sir,—in This...
may be of interest to note that the Duke of York must have three, or indeed five, descents from George II., and as many, therefore, from Eleonore, nee Desmier d'Olbreuse. In the......
Rifle Clubs.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — As it was through reading your paper that the formation of a village rifle club occurred to me, it may interest your readers to know......
[to The Editor Of The "spectator.")
Sra.,—No one of your correspondents has noted that the curious use of the word " nightgown " for the thing " day- gown " in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England......
The Queen's French Descent.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Your correspondent in the Spectator of June 9th is wrong in asserting that Sophie Dorothea of Celle, daughter of Eleonore d'Olbreuse and......
Mrs. Delany.
[TO THE EDITOR OP TI11 "SPECTATOR.") see a discussion has been going on in the Spectator as to the exact meaning of the term nightgown." There is a passage in the Duchess of......
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