POINTS FROM LETTERS
ADVERTISING p#7A.m.. _ .
Recently, whilst travelling in Germany, I saw an annual publication, printed in English, entitled " Passing through Germany." The contributors to this booklet were leading writers, principally connected with the Universities, which gave it an authoritative standing. It contained articles
descriptive of the principal cities, of the Cathedrals, of the industrial, scientific and educational life, &c.
In this attractive form, it was a rapid survey of the main features of the country, giving the kind of information a visitor would dedre "to-know. I am not aware of any similar publication hereonitliningthe principal features of this country and I commend' to those interested a perusal of the booklet referred to.—JAMES EWING, " Ashleigh," Selbome Grove, Bradford.
SAFEGUARDING FOR IRON AND STEEL.
Since Safeguarding was introduced unemployment has appreciably increased. Protection has had the same result in Australia: We have never had heavier tariff burdeng and we have never had so much unemployment. Australia, being a great food country and an abundant grower of clothing materials, should be the cheapest country in the world. Protection has made it one of the most expensive. It is quite certain that if Great Britain abandoned Free Trade, the Protectionist feeling would be intensified everywhere, and hence the difficulties of Great Britain maintaining and extending her export trade correspondingly increased.—F. T. HICKFORD, 422 Little Collins Street, Melbourne.
THE LAST OF THE WINDJAMMERS.
1 do not remember ever hearing the word " Windjammer " used during my graduation in sailing ships, commencing February, .1881. Nine or ten years later, however, upon going into steam, I frequently came up against it, and to my dislike There- were many pet names used in speaking of the " Clippers "-by the Old School " sailing-ship imen, but they were usually pleasanter. sounding and. much .more expressive of affection, than.." W,indjangner,"77,-JonN J,, JARDINE, " Sannox," DOwnhills Road Blundellsands.
...In the . Spectator. of November 10th (" Names That. Live On ") it is. said, " The little. beard, known, as the ' Imperial-' was called after Napoleon.III." I always understood that the moustache and imperial or goatee; as it is caffed-in originated with the Spaniard in the day's of Vie Moorliti occupation of Spain: -It was-the•sign of the-cross and WOM generally by.the Christians to give them a distinguishing mark. I am not absolutely sure, but it seems to me that I. remember seeing pictures of Spaniards, wearing moustache and imperial long before the time of Napoleon III. Perhaps some of yOur- readers can enlighten me on this'? PFNl3EKT0N HUTCHINSON, Lewis Building, Philadelphia, USA.
SPRING-HEELED JACK.
In your issue of Deceinber 1st, a .correspondent Natid (where I lived for twenty-five years) mentions mysterious footsteps in the snow, in S. Devon in 1855. I was three years old then, and have all my life remembered the thrill of horror I felt when the nurse and nursery maid talked over the fire, at night, of " Spring-heeled Jack " who " got over " impossible places and whose footsteps had been seen in the snow near the house where I was born—Loventor, TOtnes. Can this be the same ? I was told long afterwards by my father that " Jack " Was a farm boy on stilts, robed in a sheet—ELEANOR TYRRELLi The Gables, Alexandria Road, Sidmouth.
A CONCERT FOR THE MINERS.
It is a new idea to give a concert in the big Meeting House of the Society of Friends in Euston Road, London; On Tuesday, January 15th, at 8.15 p.m. a concert in aid of the Coalfields Distress Fund will be held, at which admission will be free, but a silver and note collection will be taken. L. K. BEAMIS11 (Mrs. Arthur Beamish), Friends House, Euston Road, London, N.W. 1.
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