24 JULY 1909, page 13

Why Not Popularise Consols? [to The Editor Or The Sp

EOTATOR."1 SIR,-With regard to the letter in your issue of the 17th inst. headed "Why Not Popularise Consols ? " it may be of interest to some of your readers to know that our......

Father Tyrrell. (to The Editor. Or Tun • Srearwroa.'i...

may be interesting to those of your readers who have followed in sympathy Father Tyrrell's strenuous and fearless career, and now mourn over his death, to be reminded of some of......

Lto The Editor Of The "spectator.']

SIR,—I remember one dark night some years ago I was returning home from a meeting at Stonesfield, Oxon. Driving down the rather steep road from the village, I was surprised to......

Presentiments.

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your interesting article of last week on "Presenti- ments" reminds me of Newman's lines on "Warnings." It would seem that he also......

Do Animals Reason? [to The Eoiron. Or Tb R "

SPECTATOR." SIR,—" More than a centary ago Gilbert White remarked that the maxim that defines instinct to be that secret influence by which every species is compelled naturally......

Shamming Lameness. [to Th E Editor 07 The " Specta

TOR."] SIR,—A horse I rode in Australia, 'Sportsman,' was very fond of shamming lameness when he was sulky. I have sometimes in the course of a ride got down two or three times......