6 APRIL 1929, page 18

Payment Of Golf - Caddies [to The Editor Of The

SPECTATOR.] Sut,-1 may put before you regarding " Payment of. Golf Caddies " in your issue of -the 16th ult. that ahnost the same views were put forward over forty years ago by......

A Hundred Years Ago

THE " SPECTATOR," APRIL 4TH, 1829. Exagavii.ros orTAEs.*.Asox. Mr. Burnett has just publishod, an, engraving, by himself,from his picture of the " Shipwrecked Family " ; which......

Essex And East Anglia

I am pleased to see your appreciation of E. Vaughan's Essex Village, but must once more enter my protest against calling us part of East Anglia. It is a great historical......

The Buzzard.

Sir William Beach Thomas, in the Spectator for March 16th, says there is some talk of the buzzard being taken off the list of protected birds in the West 'of England. Presumably......

Safeguarding [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

• Sin,— Much has been written in your columns lately on the subject of " Safeguarding." Perhaps you might like to hear the views of a farmer living on the outskirts of......

Education.

Education is, in fact, as it is commonly conducted, the .art of exhibition—a branch of the art - of - catching. - This is as regards the feniale sex ; in the case of boys - it......

Unemployment.

In the summary of the three reports on Unemployment, given in your " News of the Week," nothing is said in eithse or them about getting the people back to the land. What ace the......

Points From Letters

- Is NATURE CRUEL ? With reference to Mr. Walter Crick's letter on the " Cruelty of Cats," it may be that the cat is not only " perfectly inno- cent," but " most merciful " as......