23 APRIL 1921, page 16

The Origin Of The London Costermongers. [to The Editor Or

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,--I am a reader of your valued periodical. In Mr. A. R. Hope-Moncrieff's book London, p. 247, there is an allusion to the costermongers of London and......

A Brain Wave.

CTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The following brain wave may interest your 'readers, recalled to my remembrance when lately reading the account in Harries's History of......

Tile Theatre.

MISS ISADORA DUNCAN'S MATINgES AT THE PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE (3 o'clock). I WROTE some time ago complaining that there was no literature by whose aid we—the public—could erect......

The Traffic In Old Horses.

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The result of the 1914 campaign for stopping this traffic was a " stiffening up" of the inspection by which we were assured only horses......

Poetry.

Pan pipes soundlessly For the unheeding bees. Bound by the trailing tresses of the vine To soft captivity, Neptune has left his waves To stand beneath the frozen, green cascades......

A House Of Retreat.

[TO THE EDITOZ Or THE " SPECTATOR".1 Sue—Some years ago (I think in 1908) you drew attention in your columns to a remarkable article in the Hibbert Journal by the late Father......

War History Of The 62sn (west Riding) Division. [to The

EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sus,—A history of the 62nd (West Riding) Division is about to be written. We feel confident that all those who have personal diaries or maps likely......

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