7 NOVEMBER 1891, page 30

Music And Its Influence On Animals. [to The Editor Op

THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — John Wesley once tried the effect of music upon animals, and records the result of his experiment in his " Journals, " under date Monday, December......

Letters To The Editor.

WANTED—A NEW MEAT. [To THIE EDITOR Or rag "SpzcrAToR."1 Sxn,—My attention has been drawn to a recent article in the Spectator, headed " Wanted—A New Me it," in which reference......

The Tom-tit In London.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — The tom-tits (both larger and smaller) are by no means unfamiliar in London, but take kindly to any fairly quiet garden where they......

Kant ' S Scottish Grandfather.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — Hans Cant, grandfather of Kant, the philosopher, left Scotland in or before 1678, and was living, as a strap-maker, at Memel, in East......

Shakespeare And Cicero.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—When Shakespeare says that the end of playing is " to show the very age and body of the time his form and pressure, ' does he not seem......

Henry K Ingsley.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 your notice of Messrs. Macmillan ' s " Catalogue, ' you express surprise that Charles Kingsley ' s novels should have been reprinted more......

" Result " And " Resilience. " [to The Editor Op The

"SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—While entirely agreeing in your very able and interesting criticism on Ruskin as a poet, I venture to think that you have been rather hard on him in......