28 DECEMBER 1901, page 15

"the Cold Wind That Foreruns The Morn."

—Tennyson. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Si,—Is there a dawn wind? Is the morning the "Mother of Winds." as Hesiod calls her ? The poets, the real poets who see and tell......

Village Rifle Clubs.

(To TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—By the encouragement of your paper, of which I have for years been a reader, our miniature rifle range has been opened and working for......

Field Glasses For Our Officers In South Africa.

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In a letter from South Africa by last mail an officer at the front writes :—" If any of you can ever pick up old field glasses cheap at......

A Plea For Small Birds.

(To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.' SIR, — May I draw the attention of your readers to some of the suffering caused by the practice of catching small birds for the table and for......

Kim& Children.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—In the Spectator of December 14th is an article about slum children, and a cheering picture is drawn of what Mr. Matthew Arnold calls......