25 JANUARY 1930, page 20

The Three-quarters Of An Hour Group.

I venture to ask the hospitality of your columns regarding a society I am starting, to be called The Three-Quarters of an Hour Group. The object is to get people to band......

A Life Of Mr. H. G. Wells.

I shall greatly appreciate your giving space to this letter. I am writing an account of the life and activities, literary and other, of Mr. H. G. Wells. It will appear this year......

Night Baking.

I see that the managing director of an important Glasgow bakery predicts that if the Government passes legislation to abolish night-baking, we may expect what has happened in......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sta,—i Am Very Glad

to see the letter on " Woes of the Caged,' and your comment on it. It is the travelling menageries and the idiotic tricks which wild animals are made to perform, rather than......

The Changing Bull-fight.

With reference to the fourth paragraph of " W. H. C.' s " letter under above heading (11th inst.) where readers are reassured that " English horses are not used in the......

Personal Survival

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read Dr. Albert Peel's article with much interest, but with the feeling that there is more to be said. Dr. Peel has no desire for......

" What Is Wrong With Scotland ?

The writer of the article in your issue of January 18 refers incidentally to " Dr. Johnson's well-known jibe about oatmeal, and Boswell's famous reply." She is, however,......

Points From Letters

SEATS FOR SHOP ASSISTANTS. I am under the impression that there is a law on the Statute Book that compels shop-keepers to provide seats for their shop-assistants. A recent......

I've Eaten Wild Honey

I'VE eaten wild honey, Found a moccasin flower, Heard a water-thrush singing— I have had my hour And it fed me, it filled me Like crowded comb Bees hide in basswood Up beyond......