A Forgetful Dominion
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your - correspondent " Wanderer " is perfectly correct in stating that there is no memorial to Edward Gibbon Wakefield in New Zealand, for......
Stag Hunting
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent seeks to show that the hunted stag— the carted stag—is indifferent to its pursuers. Can you find space for the other......
Poetry
Sea, Nocturne LIGHTS on the sea-line go, Vibrating to and fro, Errant, mysterious, low, Seen bright, seen dwindled ; But that one steadfast spark That cleaves the drooping dark,......
English Undefiled.
Everyone who is anxious to preserve the purity and beauty of the English language must regard with dismay the danger of incorporation into the mother speech of such new coinages......
Is Nature_ Cruel ?
In my letter on " Is Nature Cruel ? " to which Mr. E. C. Oppenheim replies in your issue of April 27th, my point of view was to show that whether the infliction of suffering in......
Transport Costs
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The letter by " Parallax commenting upon Com- mander Windham's advocacy of the spending of money on roads and air service in preference to......
Points From Letters
AMBASSADORS FOR FRANCE. I read with interest an article in the Spectator of April 6th headed as above, but I fear your correspondent was wrongly informed.. He stated that the......
The Portland Vase.
In answer to Mrs. Steel's letter in the Spectator, asking - it the replica made by Wedgwood which she possesses - is unique. It may interest her and your readers to know that I......
Trapping.
I notice a letter in your columns this week on the difficulty of humane trapping. I wonder if the trap committee of the R.S.P.C.A. have ever considered the possibility of......