22 JULY 1911, page 15

The Thackeray Centenary.

(To Tim Eorros or TEN "Srzowroo."] Sin,—Many doubtless of your readers were present at the delightful entertainment with which Lady Ritchie and the Editor of the Cornhill......

[to The Editor Or The "spectator:1

Sis,—Mr. Sutton Nelthorpe need not have gone back seventy years for examples of fraternity between Church people and Nonconformists. Within my own recollection there was in my......

The Late Mr. H. E. Dakyns.

[To THE EDITOR Or TRX "SPECTATOR."' SIR, — So long a time had elapsed since the late Mr. H. E. Dakyns retired into private life that many may have forgotten how great a man he......