4 OCTOBER 1913, page 32

[to The Editor Of The "spectator. " ] Agree With The Writer

of the most interesting article on the Little owl that, owing to recent importations the bird has become a nuisance in this country and has forfeited any claim it ever had to......

Poetry.

SARO SAN. (Suggested by the Reticulated Python at the Zoo.) So long ago that it can't be counted, There lived in a palace of golden glass, Roofed with crystal and jet, and......

[to The Editor Of The "spectator."]

SIR,—In the Spectator of September 27th " C. D." asks who gave fruit purees the insulting name of "fool"? I know of only one fruit purée so called—gooseberry fool—and I have......

[to The Editor Of The " Spectator."]

SIR,—Referring to your correspondent " C. D.'s " remark about " the insulting name of ' fool,'" given to the family of fruit purees, may I suggest that its derivation is from......

"blackberry Fool."

[To THE EDITOR cm TH. "Srsonsos.") SIR,—Yonr correspondent of September 27th, who so rightly extols the merits of " blackberry fool" or puree asks, "Who first gave the whole......

Art.

111.E SHEPHERD GALLERIES. IN any survey of the week space must be found for the mention of a loss which art-lovers in London have sustained this Michaelmas quarter. The Shepherd......

The Commons Preservation Society Fund.

We have received the following donation to the above Fund : G. Grahame ... .el 0 0......

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