5 MAY 1928, page 19

Poetry

Tudor Nightpiece BEFORE the Kine were milken I wore but shift and shoon ; But now, in taffetas silken, Wyth broidered rosebuds strewne, I fleet Tripp downe the oaken flight To......

The Padding Of Horses At Bull Fights

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Confirmation comes to me from Spain of your footnote to the letter on the live-horse export trade in the issue of April 21st. A friend......

Animals' Welfare Week

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Lovers of animals have reason to be grateful to you for the manner in which you have lately been voicing their claims. May we, with your......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sir,—i Was Brought Up

by my grandfather, who was born 1802, to regard " I am, &e.," as a vulgarism only less gross than " yours, &c." He allowed that " &c." might properly be used after "I have,......

" A Dog's Senses

[To . the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Surely,. in Sir William Beach Thomas's interesting as_ Country Life " paragraphs of April 21st; it is with undue diffidence he inclines......

The Hardships Of The Clergy [to The Editor Of The

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was offered this living at the end of 1926 as 1378 net. In 1927 the Tithe Redemption Act came into force, and, whereas £270 was still to be collected in......