23 AUGUST 1902, page 17

The Elizabethan Martyrs.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR." j SIR,—There is one statement made by you in the Spectator of August 9th which seems contrary to fact,—viz., "Elizabeth during the first......

Change Of Air.

[To THE EDITOR Or TEE " SPECTATOR.'] Sra,—In the article on " Change of Air" in the Spectator of August 16th the writer says : " Jane Austen's people were content to migrate '......

[to The Editor Of The "spectator. "] Sra,—i Consider That...

Bull of St. Pius V, excommunicating Queen Elizabeth was a disastrous blunder, to be deplored, as one of that Pope's successors expressed it, "in tears of blood." No doubt a......

[to The Editor Of The "spectator. "] Sir, —in The Days Of

my youth—some fifty years since—we children were invited to write the following lines from dic- tation :— " Whilst hewing yews Hugh lost his ewe And put it in the hue-and-cry;......