8 OCTOBER 1904, page 15

Firelight.

And clouds lie low on the misty bill, A lover comes with the grey October A blank in our empty hearts to fill. In the ingle she waits with red-gold tresses, With rosy cheeks and......

Sni,—as One Among Many Of Your Constant Scottish Readers,...

you allow me to express the regret which many of us feel that you have decided to exclude further correspondence on this subject from your columns ? Your paper is uniformly......

Snl,—your Correspondent "w." In Last Week's Spectator...

of the statement that "Cumberland shepherds still count their sheep in Welsh." It is, I believe, a fairly well-known fact that the shepherds of not only parts of Cumberland, but......

Shakespeare.* Mn. C. I. Elton's Shakespeare : His Family And

Friends is a book which could only have been written after the leisurely research of many years. It is not a treatise hastily put together to meet this or that publishing......

[to The Editor Of The " Spec/ Ator.1

Sin,—There is an old saying about misfortune coming in threes, and to the destruction at the Avon and Cheddai Gorges referred to in your last issue may I add that now being......

[to The Editor Or Tue "spectator."' Sie,—mr. Troup Will Find

the two sentences attributed to Dr. Hutton (see the Spectator of October 1st) in the report of the annual meeting of the Disestablishment Council for Scotland in the Daily......

[to The Editor Op The "spectator.'j

Srn,—In the Spectator of September 24th a correspondent gives "preaching tub" as a new name for "pulpit," invented by a Chinese carpenter. In J. K. Fowler's "Echoes of Old......