26 SEPTEMBER 1903, page 18

English As Spoken In Ireland.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 Sin,—Your correspondent in the Spectator of September 5th errs in his correction of your previous correspondent on this subject. The......

Sir N. Lockyer And Trained Scientists.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR...] Slit,—Sir Norman Lockyer in his recent address to the British Association proposed, by increased endowment of the Univer- sities, to......

[to Tim Editor Of Ter " Spectator."]

Sis,—Your correspondent (Spectator, September 5th), is, I fear, unfamiliar with Ireland when he ventures to say that the expression used is not "How well !" but "All, well!" I......

A Colonial Governor.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE - spscrvron.-j Snt,—In your interesting review in the Spectator of Sep- tember 19th of "My Colonial Service, &c.," by Sir William Des Vceux, and your......

"they."

[To THE EDITOB OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—There is in "Wilhelm Meister" a passage so like the one quoted in the Spectator of August '29th in the article entitled "They," that it......

Poetry.

THE UNSUNG. WHO sings of the soldier? Of the chieftain whose shoulders bear the weight Of an army's weal, of an Empire's fate, Of the half-starved marcher in heat and wet, Of......