30 JUNE 1900, page 30

Social Life In The British Army. [to Vie Editor Of

TIIE "SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—" A Soldier ' s Son " has pointed out in the Spectator of June 16th that many young men who would make fine soldiers are lost to the Army because they are......

[to The Editor Op The "spectator.')

Sin,—It is possible that the following facts may interest the bird-loving readers of the Spectator. Last year, at my country place—Wileote, in Oxfordshire—a pair of swallows......

Bird-stories.

[TO THE EDI,TOR OF THE "SPEC CATOR.1 STE,—A blackbird of Upton Village, Berkshire, has given evidence of a quality supposed to belong only to the caged and trained one,—the......

Louis Irving Seymour.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sus,—Every Englishman who ever came within reach of his vivid personality, or even blew about him by report, must deplore the death of Major......

Birmingham (king Edward Vi.) Schools Bill. [to Tile...

THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—On the occasion of the third reading of this Bill, which was carried by a majority of 68, Mr. Chamberlain said that he did not remember a private Bill......