Cheap Physic.
A boy in Perth, who had been sent to an apothecary's shop one night last week to purchase some medicine for the family, and who had received a halfpenny back of the sum sent as......
A Hundred Years Ago
THE " SPECTATOR," SEPTEMBER 17TH, 1831. A meeting took place at day-dawn on . Wedue3day last, on Wimbledon Common, between Lieutenant Claxton, R.N., and Mr. Protheroe, M.P. for......
[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] • - Sir, — May I
correct an error in my letter which appeared under the above heading in your issue of September 12th. Careless- ness on my part must have been the cause of my statement that a......
Ours Is The Sky
ALL day long I.have been Between the blue and the green, Lying where daisies lie, Looking up at the sky, I have seen flowers open and seen Linnets and swallows fly. Thege be the......
Points From Letters
AN EXPENSIVE MEAL. The little volume of Original-Poems for Infant Minds from which I quoted was not published by Barton and Harvey, but by Hill, Virtue and Company, 25......
• - Tithe Barns.
There is a very fine tithe barn at Church Farm, Eddlesborough, Bucks, reached by following the road from Hemel Hempstead to Leighton Buzzard. In Hemel Hempstead is a large barn......
Aloysius Horn Ito The . Editor Of The Spectator.] .
SIR, — There seems to be still current a belief, based on wholly insufficient evidence, that the late Trader Horn and his editress, Mrs. Ethelreda Lewis, combined to impose a......
The Press In The Commons.
The tone in which newspapers are usually mentioned in tho House of Commons—very different from that adopted by Lord ALTHORP—is absurd. Men who cannot breakfast without one, in......
Court Dress.
Nothing can be more warlike than our Levees and Drawing- rooms ; instead of being peaceful meetings to pay respect to a peaceful monarch, they have the air of levies en masse.......
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