6 AUGUST 1921, page 15

How To Describe The Present Parliament (to Ens Editor Or

ma " Stescrivoe."1 Sie,—Your correspondent Mr. Middleton asks: "One wonders by what adjective the Parliament sitting in the eleventh year of King George V. will be......

Pope As A Painter.

ITo THE EDITOR or Tar " SPECT/MOR.") SIR, —The gentleman whose letter you published last week cannot have read all the correspondence in your columns upon this subject, or he......

"burke And Hare."

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—In the interesting review of Burke and Hare in your issue of July 23rd, I note that the reviewer states that it had been produced for "......

The Rawnsley Memorial. Ito The Editor Or The " Spectator."]

Snt.,—Yoti were good enough to insert in your columns some months ago a letter from us appealing for funds to enable the National Trust to. carry through the purchase of certain......

(to The Editor Of The " Spectator...i Sir,—i Cannot Tell

your correspondent Frances H. Meares where to find the words of the old song she heard years ago, but I can tell her that they were sung to me by my nursemaid, who was a......

(to The Editor Or The " Spf.ctator."]

Sia,—My father taught me the following " old song " a little less than seventy years ago :— " Shrim shram pamadiddle arra bona ring clang; Ring clang bullyingy koima.......

(to The Editor Of The " Spectator."] Ark— The Nonsense

words quoted by your correspondents are evidently versions of the chorus of an old song, of which the first verse used to be sung to us as children. The verse runs as follows (I......

Gems And Precious Stones.

[To 2TIE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] am sure many of your readers must have highly appreciated Sir Evelyn Grant-Duff's contribution, which appeared in your last week's issue,......

An Old Children's Song.

fro ERE &mots or THE " teeecveroa."1 SIR,— Referring to the words of an old children's song and the refrain which comes-at the end of each verse as quoted by your correspondent.......

The Irish Negotiations.

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Srn,—The following quotation from Burke's speech on con- ciliation with America seems appropriate to the present negotiations between the......