20 DECEMBER 1919, page 14

The Lost Arts.

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —The series of suggestions contained in the fascinating article on "The Romance of Disappearance" will, no doubt, revive the interest......

English Words In The French Language. [to Me Editor Of

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, I have read with great interest the article signed " S." on English words adopted in France. In spite of the compli- ment thus paid to England, as one......

The Scottish Church En'abllito Bill. *

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—May I be allowed a rejoinder to Dr. Gordon Mitchell's second letter (in the Spectator of October 11th)? My statements as to the......

" More Sea Fights Of The Great War."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your kindly review of More Sea Fights of the Great War the critic takes exception to the passage : " A few more errors of judgment......

(to The Editor Of The " Spectator.") Ste,—your Reviewer,...

of Sir Edward Ridley's translation of Lucan, says that we are not likely to get a better version till an eighteenth-century poet returns to make one for us. But why should an......

The Labour Problem In South Africa. [to Ism Editor Of

THE " SPECTATOR."] Snz,—I think Mr. J. S. Preddy's letter is sufficiently answered by my later one which you have been kind enough to publish on the same page (Spectator,......

Lucan.

[To THE EDITOR or ME " SPECTATOR."] Sts,—It may interest Mr. J. A. L. Fraser to know that the reading of Lucan is no new thing in the Humanity Class Room of Glasgow University.......