29 JUNE 1901, page 18

Memory And Individuality.

[To TTIZ EDITOR OR TRI SPROTATOR."3 SIR, - . — The writer of the article on this subject in the Spectator of June 22nd thus appeals to Montaigne :—"If we forget, we lose the......

Warwickshire Superstitions.

[To TEE EDITOR OF TIE " SPECTATOR."3 Si, — Inland though the county of Warwickshire is, it seems as though the word " urchin " as a synonym for " hedgehog " had got as far as......

Bismarck.

ITO THE EDITOR OF ME "SPECTATORM Si,—The circumstances of a long life having placed me at divers times, and in sundry places, in contact with the Bismarckian milieu, intimate......

Swifts.

(TO VII EDITOR OF THE spEcteron.1 Si,—Can any of your readers who are wise about birds give an explanation of the strange and captivating behaviour of certain swifts, of which I......

Railway Animals.

[TO TIM EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Stn,—The smaller hawks have taken to the iron road as a regular means of getting their daily food. They may be seen in the Southern States of......

The Starlings

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—In your issue of June 15th "E. S. M." speaks of watch- ing starlings plunder sparrows' nests, and seeing them "fly away with the blue......