Matthew Prior's Poems. [to The Editor Of The "spectator....
fail to see why Mr. Dobson should speak of Prior's couplet,- " For thou art a girl so much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me," as containing a " grammatical......
Statistics Of Bradfield Union.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —I regret that a clerical error, not detected by me till pointed out by Mr. Garland in your columns, should have made unintelligible a......
The Work Of The Cultivated.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIE,—I doubt very much if what is usually called the working class has the remotest idea how hard is the work done, for fully thirty years of......
Gilbert's Journal Of Captain Cook's Last Voyage.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, In the review on Mr. Walter Besant's " Captain Cook," in the Spectator of April 26th, the critic observes :—" We infer that Mr. Besant......
Respect Of Persons In The World To Come. [to The
EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J Six,—In one of Voltaire's short stories, " L'Homme aux Quarante Ecus," there is described a debate among certain theologians as to the soul of......
Modern Grammar.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, — The letter headed as above in the Spectator of April 26th, calls for notice in the interests of "English as she is spoke," and of the......
[to The Editor Of The "spectator."]
SIR, In your article of April 19th on " The 'Man in the Street' as Grammarian," you say: "No one can say whence comes the habit of substituting the accusative for the nomi-......
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