2 JULY 1904, page 24

The Materialism Of English Life.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR,—I can only reply to your correspondent in your last issue that if he thinks, as he seems to think, that scientific inven- tions change......

The Proposed Electric Tramway To Bettws-y-coed.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—I enclose a list of over eighteen hundred signatures to a memorial against the proposed overhead electric tram- way through Pen-y-Gwryd......

A Correction.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—On a point of equity, I write to you. In the Spectator of June 25th (p. 991) one of your reviewers, in referring to a story of my......

The Natural History Museum.

[TO THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR-1 Sin,—My attention has been drawn to a paragraph in your issue of June 18th in which the reviewer of the memoir of Sir William Flower deplores......

[to The Editor Op The "spectator."]

SIR,—Is there not danger that indemnities given to dismissed factory girls might act in a double way, sometimes bringing forth the truth, sometimes what is not the truth ? For......

Books.

AMERICA TO-DAY.* MOST students of politics are agreed that America stands on the threshold of a new career, a development to which her past history provides no parallel. Her......

Poetry.

TWO HOMES. MY home was in the Island that we love, Set in the seas. The heaven alternate smiles and frowns above; The stately trees Beset the hedgerows, and the fields are gay......