4 NOVEMBER 1871, page 16

The Chicago And Forest Fires.

[To TEIE EDITOR OF THE SPEC/TATOU:] SIR, —It is said that the great fire at Chicago originated in the. upsetting of a burning fluid-lamp. It may have been so, but I do not......

"the Guild Of Plain Dressers."

[TO THE EDITOR Op THE SPEOTATOR,1 Sin, — You may be interested in learning that in a West-- Midland diocese an attempt has been made to revive the Sump- tuary laws and to set up......

[to The Editor Of The " Speariroa."3

SIR,—Supposing the school fees paid for destitute children not to exceed what would have been paid at a Board school, and the equal efficiency of the secular instruction given......

School Fees.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.") SIR,—For some time I determined not to trouble my head with a controversy which is no immediate concern of mine. But our brains are far more......

The Positive Argument For The Education League.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR."] Stn,—Your indulgence emboldens me to ask leave to say yet a few words more. You insist with great force on the time which would be lost in......