26 DECEMBER 1891, page 15

The Maintenance Of The Aged.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Agreeing entirely in your doubt whether any project of State-aided pensions for the aged, based upon contributions compulsory or......

Books.

A CHRONICLE OF FROCKS.* IT was a woman, and not a philosopher, who said there was nothing new in the world but what was old enough. So says the opening sentence of the quaint......

The Inspiration Of Scripture.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." ] Sin,—Allow me to make a very brief answer to your comment upon our " Declaration " in the Spectator of the 19th inst., with request for......

Epigrams.

[TO THR EDITOR OF THY "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Some may think that the writer of the interesting article on this subject in the Spectator of December 19th, should have mentioned the......

The Last Half-century.

[To THR EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] your review of Mr. Churton Collins's "Illustrations of Tennyson," in the Spectator of December 12th, you call the past half-century "an era......