5 JULY 1930, page 16

A Hundred Years Ago

THE " SPECTATOR," JULY 3ao, 1830. THE NUMBER OF LETTERS. So great was the number of letters put into the General Post- office on Saturday (nearly 30,000), that the clerks were......

Time Importuned

WAIT, Time, wait.. . Time, wait a while ; It will be too late To see her smile If you rush along So fast as this, Too late to hear her song Or know her kiss. Linger but a day........

A Letter From Oxford. [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

Sin,—The Architectural Review certainly deserves the award of Oxford's annual biscuit for its new title for the University —" Cowley's Quartier Latin. - For, somehow or another,......