Irish Tourist Development.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOB."1 SIR, —The Irish tourist season has rarely opened under more favourable auspices. The visit of their Majesties the King and Queen to Dublin......
A Coronation Poem From Australia.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR—I venture to bring under your attention the subjoined verses which appeared in the " Argus " on the day following the Coronation. They......
Not Backward Through The Grandeur Of Past Years, Renown Of
monarchs dead or pageants played, Shall turn our eyes when the new King appears In stateliest pomp arrayed, His royal throne by world-wide pillars stayed, But strain towards......
Cowper's " Retirement."
[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In Cowper's poem "Retirement" there occur the well- known lines on solitude :— "I praise the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd— How......
The John Bull Alphabet.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Szn,—I am entertaining the hypothesis that modern "accepted English " and the " conventional long and short vowels" (the John Bull alphabet,......
Mental Activity And Memory.
[To THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR.") find in the Spectator, page 65, on July 8th of this year a brief article which seems to be a statement in regard to some verse dreamed and......
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