19 OCTOBER 1901, page 13

" Clarence Songs.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR.' SIR,—Y011 have a question in your paper, what songs, and whether any of any value, were written upon Prince WILLIAX, our present Sovereign. Can......

Charles Lamb And The "spectator." Pro Tin Editor Of Tee

" SPECTATOR."1 SIR,--Charles Lamb's only known contribution to the Spectator has been (hitherto) the very interesting letter, in his best manner, On "Shakespeare's Improvers,"......

Letters To The Editor.

PRO-BOER JOURNALS AND THE WAR. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] StR,—We have lately witnessed in the attitude of some of the leading journals in their criticism of the recent......

Mr. Gladstone And The Rectory Of Ewelm.e.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The presentation of Ewelme Rectory to the Rev. W. Wigan Harvey was an instance among many when Mr. Gladstone did what he liked without......

Pinchbeck Silence.

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR,—In the article on "Pinchbeck Silence" in the Spectator of October 5th the writer . speaks of "the Apostolic -warning that of every idle......

Rto The Editor Of The " Spectator."] Sin,—permit Me One

word on behalf of Coleridge's fellow- guest, whom I have always regarded as a wise man, both in his silence and in his speech. We know what Coleridge was as a monologian ; his......

" Clarence Song S.—no. Ii.

SIR, — A friend has just reminded me of a ballad made on occasion of some shipboard scrape into which our Royal Midshipman had fallen; in which, with a romantic licence, the......