Plagiarism Or Coincidence?
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In Lord Tennyson's memoir of his father (vol. H., p. 222) the following passage occurs. Ruskin on one occasion had been lunching with......
Links With The Past.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-As the Spectator interests itself in long lives and the links which they create, you may care to publish the following. There died at......
Napoleon And Lady Holland.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-With your kind permission I venture to request a place for the following in the columns of the Spectator. It occurs to me that just now,......
" Vous Etes Riches, Payez Donc."
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-" H. C." may be interested in knowing that it is not merely among rural Juges de Paix and in the affairs of postboys that the idea......
"oil On The Troubled Waters."
[To THE EDITOR OF TEN "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In your issue of October 18th I see under the heading of "Oil on the Troubled Waters," a quotation from Bede's " Historia," iii., 17: "......
Valencia Or Valentia.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In your notice last week of Mr. Kipling's "Songs from Books" the writer says, "Surely he meant Valentia in Ireland, not Valencia in......
Grace Before Meat.
[To THE EDITOR OF TEl "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Some of us like to preserve the good custom of saying grace before meat. Can any of your readers supply a form that is (1) brief and......
The Absence Of Wheels In Nature.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Surely all animal locomotion is effected by means of wheel action modified to suit the special conditions ? Legs and arms move on wheels......
Robertson On English Characteristics.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In an editorial comment on a letter published in the Spectator on November 1st, you say : "We would place in the hands of the people......
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