7 MAY 1887, page 13

The Consumption Of Tea.

[To THE EDITOR OP TEM ..SrEerryos.".1 Six, — I am sorry to trouble you to correct a stupid error with reference to the consumption of tea in 1886, which occurred in my letter to......

Art.

THE GROSVENOR GALLERY EXHIBITION. [FIRST NOTICE.] Sea COUTTS LINDSAY leaves the management of the Grosvenor Gallery—at all events, the hanging of the pictures — too much to his......

Malaprops And Portmantologisms.

[To THE EDITOR Or TEE "1316CTATOR..1 Sca, Will you allow me to add a couple of examples to the Amusing specimens of lapsus ling= that have recently appeared in your pages P Many......

Mr. Parnell And The Spectator.

[To THE EDITOE Or THE SPECSAEOL".1 SIR,—I am this week desiring my newsagent to cease sending me the Spectator, thus closing a continuous subscription of just a quarter of a......

Poetry.

SONG. Ie words were not so weak To tell our best thoughts, dear, Then I might speak, And you might hear. If Earth were not so bleak, Our roses might not die, — And I might seek......

Word-twisting And Etymology. [to Tee Editor 01 Tes N...

Sea, — The instances of word-twisting hazarded by your corre- spondent "J. K., " will scarcely, I think, bear examination. Passing over the fact that the transposition of......