16 MAY 1908, page 17

The Home Trade Of 1907.

iTo TDB EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' your "News of the Week " paragraphs last week you speak of last year as having been a record year both in the home and foreign trade. This......

Missing From The Gazetteer.

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEM "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—It is likely that Siirbridga Fair, mentioned in your review of " The Cambridge Grace-Book," April 18th, should be read Stourbridge......

Glastonbury Abbey Purchase Fund.

[To THE EDITOR OF TER " araciatea.."] Sta,—Will you help me to complete the balance still owing on the Glastonbury Abbey Purchase Fund ? Glastonbury Abbey may well kindle the......

A Robin's Nest.

[TO THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—In a disused stable behind my house there hangs an inverted human skull (left by a brother, now a doctor in India). On the orbit, and......

Squirrels And Cocoanuts.

Tne EDITOR OF THE "SPROTATOR."1 SIR,—Your correspondent "E. P." (Spectator, March 7th) would probably be surprised to learn all the uses of the cocoa- nut besides those which......

Herodotus On The Situation.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " 1 SIR,—In these days of old-age pensions and large navies, the enclosed extract will be of interest to your readers. Herodotus here refers to......

Poetry.

TO THE INVINCIBLE REPUBLIC.* AMERICA ! I have never breathed thy air, Have never touched thy soil or heard the speed And thunder of thy cities ; yet would I Salute thee from......