26 SEPTEMBER 1931, page 12

Correspondence

A LETTER FROM PARIS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—These are not happy days for the Englishman in Paris. Well he knows, of course, that they are not happy days at home,......

A Receipt

LET us be easy in our verse, As Horace was, or Martial : But not give outward praise or curse, Though personally partial To this or that idea, or face, With secret bias for a......

A Hundred Years Ago

THE " SPECTATOR," SEPTEMBER 24TH, 1831. Ax EcoxoxicAL PAINTER. I called upon D. [George Dawe, the Academician) to congratulate him. His pleasant housekeeper seemed embarrassed ;......