20 MARCH 1920, page 12

Nautical Solecisms.

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.' SIL—Lord Fisher in one of his recent books draws attention to the small numbers of statues of great seamen that embellish (?) London and......

A London Wheatear.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—I was strolling along ploughland in the suburb where I live (in the south and some six miles from Charing Cross) on the 19th of this......

Education By Sight-seeing.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sni,—A novel experiment in educational sight-seeing has just been made in Birmingham under the auspices of the Juvenile Organization......

Classics For The Amateur.

[To TM EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I regret my error in speaking of Jowett's translation of Thucydides as earlier than Crawley's, but I had not the least intention of......

A Temporary Honorary Secretary Wanted.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR "] SIR,—The Westminster Branch of the Children's Country Holiday Fund is at present without an honorary secretary. If any of your readers could......

The Palestine Crocodile.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ] SIR,—With regard to Mr. E. J. Thompson's article on the above subject in your issue of February 14th, I am told that crocodiles have not......

• St. Alphonsus

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sm.,—In your review of The Roman Mischief - Maker you allude to St. Alphonsus Liguori as " the eighteenth-century Jesuit." If the other......

" A Doctor In Sussex."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The poesy from a sampler quoted in your interesting review of Sussex in Bygone Days (Dr. Blaker's reminiscences) in your issue of March......

The Serbonl&n Bog.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—May I suggest that the authority for the description of the Serbonian Bog is Diodorue and not Herodotus, and that it is grievous to......