Quarantine.
As an illustration of the stringency with which quarantine was observed eighty years ago I think that it may be interesting to quote a passage from my father's letter written to......
There Are Accounts From Nauplia To The 20th Of Last
month. The Greeks are punishing, like barbarians, the barbarous assassin& Lion of their late political chief. Pietre.Bey's son has been con. demned to lose his right hand, and......
The Post Office.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —In your " News of the Week " in your last issue, in commenting upon the Post Office you compare the Telephone Department in a favourable......
Personal Char.acter Of Lords.
Our society is of too mixed a kind to permit any very essential distinctions to exist between the Peer and the Commoner ; and latterly it has been a mark of breeding to merge......
The Grey Squirrel.
Can some reader of the Spectator explain why it is that the grey squirrel is so unpopular in Great Britain, where everyone's hand seems to be against him, while in North America......
Sir George Newman Has Shown That The Average Physique Of
children in elementary schools on a whole is slightly better than it was a few years ago. Improved environment is bound to result in improved appearances—for a time. The......
Buy British.
[To the Editor of the Si-nes-axon.] Snt,—We are now in the midst of the " Buy British " week. No nation can deny our right to adopt this expedient for the improvement of our......
" Buy British."
......
Russian. Timber Camps.
. . [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sol,—You - published some statements in 'June last from a correspondent, Mr. E. W. Harliy, criticizing -this • Society's Report on the......
A Hundred Years Ago
As the period of Parliament's assembling approaches, the publics as usual, are entertained with various rumours, new hatched at the time, of alterations in the Cabinet. The......
A Quarimosr.
Can any of your readers tell me where I eau find a short poem, of which every verse ends with There's something in the English after all?—A. M. B.......
The "spectator" And The English Language [to The Editor Of
the SPECTATOR.] submit that it is perfectly legitimate to write of an abominable piece of bad English or bad manners or bad reasoning. There is no tautology ; " abominable"......
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