22 APRIL 1893, page 14

[to The Editor Of The "spectat011.1 Apra 4th, 1893.

Sin,—Every year the truth of Burns's "the best-laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a-gley " comes more home to me. From the time I was ten the pass of Roncesvalles has had a......

Leading-strings.

I F society were organised according to the socialist ideal, there would be no fixed period for freedom from leading- strings—i n that no man or woman would ever be thought of......