16 MAY 1896, page 16

A Bird-story.

[To TER EDITOR OF THE “ SPECTATOR.'] SIR, — Your correspondent, "L. L. S.," in the Spectator of May 2nd, says he would very much like to know whether any of your readers have......

Professor Dowden On Goethe.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,— I can hardly regret that I have been misunder- stood since the misunderstanding has called forth so able a defence of Goethe as that......

Johannesburg.

[To THE EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR.] Sin,—You may be interested by the following fragment preserved by Stobleus in his " Florilegium," VoL III., p. 231. Recent events at......

The Special Aid Grant.

[TO TR. EDITOR Or THR "SPECTATOR. "] Six, It would save a great deal of trouble, and some possible friction, and some expense, if the new 4e. grant of the Educa- tion Bill were......

"bulls."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR"] SIR, — Are "bulls," even unconscious "bulls," always censur- able and always things merely to laugh at ? are their authors merely men to......

Rates.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Your article on the Rating Bill agrees with what I have been saying to my friends for many years. I am rector of a rural parish, my......

[to ?rr Editor Or Thz Spectator."]

once heard an Irish lady, an author of distinction, asked if she had ever been to Devonshire. " No, I have never been to Devonshire, except to Lyme Regis, and that's in,......

A Dog-story.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR " ] SIR,—I venture to add an American dog-story to your list which has been given me by one of my neighbours as follows r. —We have two dogs, '......