5 OCTOBER 1918, page 13

Lord Kitchener And The Egyptian Oilfields.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] propos of your interesting article on the search for new oilfields, it must be of interest to recall that to Lord Kitchener is directly due......

Domestic Service.

[To THR EDITOR OF TIER " Spacrkron."1 SIR,—When the war began so many girls and young women offered their services that the woman of fifty did not get a chance of working except......

Internationalization Of Channels Connecting The Baltic...

[To TEL Kerma or me " Sracrrroz."1 SIR,—The suggestion of Colonel 'fate about the channels leading into the Baltic would seem to require the sanction of Denmark and Sweden as......

[to The Editor Of The "spectator."] Sat.—lovers Of Pure...

will he grateful for the article by "H. C." in your issue of September 21st. May one who has tried to teach our language, while thanking "H. C." for his protest against the......

[to The Editor Or The " Spectator.") Sia,—your...

on "Dad Language" was full of interest and amusement. The criticism, in most cases sound, in a few cases tinged perhaps with pedantry, was surely in one case, if I rightly......

Bad Language.

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The final cause of "bad language," in the sense in which " H. C." uses the term, seems to be the fact that the English lan- guage, of......