5 NOVEMBER 1910, page 18

Hedgehogs.

[To THE EDITOR OP TILE "SPECTATOR."] read with great interest the article about hedgehogs in the Spectator of October 22nd. Allow me to send you the following anecdote about a......

Books.

THE PERSIAN REVOLUTION.* No Englishman but Professor E. G. Browne, the Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic at Cambridge, could have written this book. None but he could have......

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Lto The Editor Of Tice "spectator."]

SIR,—One summer evening many years ago I was standing in an old rickyard when suddenly a hen leaped out of an adjoining bed of stinging-nettles where she had stolen her nest in......

Research Defence Society And The Plague. [to The Editor Of

THE "SPECTATOR."] Six,—In connexion with the cases of plague in Suffolk, let me say that this Society has lately published an illustrated pamphlet on "Plague in India, Past and......

An Error And An Apology.

LTo THE EDITOR OF TRE "SPECTATOR."1 Sne,—I am very sorry to see in last week's Spectator that an error has been made in my protest published by you : it should have read......

Poetry.

LONDON. FOR me no dark, deserted lane With muddy footprints, leafless banks, But shops that shine the more for rain, The friendly, flashing window-pane, And watchful cabs in......