18 JULY 1925, page 18

A Voluntary Fund For Our Present Distress

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of May 2nd, "M. C. M." writes advocating a voluntary fund for the relief of our distress. May I say that I am heartily in......

Dante Or Danton?

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Yesterday I passed through the room containing the Rodin gift of sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and my eyes fell on a plaster......

The Women's Holiday Fund

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—The annual appeal which you so kindly allow us to make for the Women's Holiday Fund is this year a very special one. A highly successful......

May Butterflies

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—In the interesting article on May butterflies, which appeared in your issue of May 23rd last, "E. M. N." writes : "The beautiful little......

Vandalism In Bristol

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Srn,—The Spectator once spoke of Bristol as a "sick city." It is true ; Bristol is indeed sick, smitten with the disease of Vandalism. Private......

Denmark For Holidays [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]...

looked in vain through your admirable Travel Sup- plement for any mention of a country which deserves to be made better known among discriminating holiday-makers— namely,......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sna,—would Any Of Your

readers kindly say where verses are to be found referring to keeping one's troubles to oneself as like a serpent gnawing at one's breast.—! am, Sir, &c., A READER.......

Two Queries

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Srn,—Two of us would be grateful to any of the readers of the Spectator who could furnish us with the name of the author of the following......

Poetry

MIDGES RAIDERS from Borderland Outcasts of earth and air Your ways are hard to understand, Your bites are bad to bear. With swollen hands mine eyes I rub, Cursing your god,......