26 JULY 1935, page 19

The Battle Of, The Boyne

[To the Editor of Tien SPECTATOR.] - , Sipp — My authorities in this letter arc the Life of Louis XIV ' 13Y . HaSsaI and alSo Lord Macaulay. The amount of ignorance in the Free......

Cruel Trapping And Furs [to The Editor Of 'the Spectator.]

Sin,—The British Field Sports Society wish to have it made- illegal to set steel-toothed traps (or gins) in the open. Although this i'vefuld . prevent grazing cattle from......

Over: 'my , . Shoulder '!- [to The Editor Of Tre Spectator.]

Sta,—The title of my travel book Over My Shoulder (reviewed in yeair•last issue) is borrowed, from R. L. Stevenson's wordS ' : " We' who have only looked at a country over our......

T` William Of The Pears "

• -- [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,:—Mr. E. L. Woodward, in his delightful article in your last issue, is unfortunately helping to perpetuate an error. . He speaks of "......

The Silent Sunday

FROM the bandstand in the garden on the hill . • Where workless seamen moped on benches And shrieking children worked the swings The ruins of the dockyard can be seen. Half-way......