20 SEPTEMBER 1884, page 16

[to The Editor Of The "spectator."] Sir,—may I Be Allowed

to add a few " Yankee " epitaphs to the entertaining list you so kindly publish ?— " JAKE C. M. Here lies one who's Life's threads cut Assunder; she was Struck dead by a clop of......

[to The Editor Of The " Spectator."1 Sis, - - - With...

the epitaph published in your paper of Saturday, the 6th, as taken from Cleish parish church, Fife- shire, Mr. H. Young, the proprietor of Cleish Castle, Kinross. shire, writes......

Poetry.

SEPTEMBER. I" awl], l'honneur et le ris De Cypris."j 0 GOLDEN child of the year That is sere, With robe of gossamer twining; 0 month that walkest a maid, Unafraid, O'er meadows......

[to The Editor Of The "spectator."]

copied from the parish register at Yattendon, Berke, for 1770, the following memorandum in the handwriting of the then rector, Dr. Bellasis :—" recd. 5s. & 3d., being the Fee of......