A Hundred Years Ago
THE "SPECTATOR," SEPTEMBER 8TH, 1832. Bartholomew Fair was proclaimed in the usual form on Monday. On the suggestion of Mr. Charles Pearson, every degree of strietness which the......
Correspondence
A Letter From Istanbul ANEW ERA FOR TURKISH WOMEN [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] sm,—The recent election of Kerinaan Hanem, a young Turkish girl, as the 1932 International......
A New Steam-coach, Built By Messrs. Ogle And Summers, Passed
through Oxford on Monday ; it had travelled with safety from Southampton. Its rate of speed is from ten to fourteen miles an hour.......
Smooth Speed
BY F. YEA TS-BROWN. Fr HE smoothest kind of speed I know is ski-ing. After that I would put aqua-planing, I think ; - but aqua- planing, like yo-yo, begins to pall after you......
Poetry
Talk at Night Au me, my love, by sense no more deceived, Come to late wisdom in your early time, Dear music dumb, sweet lies no more believed, No faith entangled in the noose of......
A Certain Monsieur D—, Residing In A Small Village Near
Paris, having had his garden robbed during several successive nights, determined to detect the plunderers ; and a few nights ago, at, about nine o'clock, took his fowling-piece,......
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