28 JANUARY 1899, page 29

[to The Editor Of Thy "sritmtait.'1 Tollemache's...

child's mind to a fountain which intermittently sends forth sweet and bitter waters is surely both pretty and apt. Here is another example of this glycypicric quality. The scene......

Letters To The Editor.

CHILDREN'S UPS AND DOWNS. [To me EDITOR Or TR. " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In reference to the idea that is being discussed in your columns that children have little feeling for the......

" England's Votx Pon A Fans Elect/on And A Free

Great God of Nations, and their Right, By whose high Auspice Brittaixt stands So long, though first 'twas built on sands, And oft had sunk but for Thy might In her own Mainland......

Catching Cold.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPIGOT/MR.1 SIE,—/ see a letter in the Spectator of January 7th about the infliction of the season, colds, and whether they are due to microbes. I can......

[ici The Edit011 Op Tile "spectator."] Siejall I Have Told

several unpleasant stories about children, I will take the unsavoury taste out of my mouth by ending with something agreeable to the moral palate. The following incident was......

The "in Memoriam" Metre. [to The Editor Op Th2 "spectator.")

Sin,—There is a fine example of the "In Memoriam" metre in an anonymous poem of the seventeenth century which I found among the "Luttrell Ballads" in the British Museum, and......