12 AUGUST 1905, page 16

[to The Editor Of The Spectator."]

Sis,—Your correspondent "Ex-O. 0.," in the Spectator of July 29th, confuses the issues when he suggests that the junior Civil servant of to-day is as young as the junior of......

Cheap Cottages Exhibition Fund.

(The Garden City, Letchworth, near Hitchin, Herts.) Tau following subscription to the Cheap Cottages Exhibition has been received through the Spectator : — W. P. Reeve LI 1 0......

Lto The Editor Op The "specpatoh."1

SIR,—May I be permitted to finish the quotation from the old rhyme in the article on "The Drought in the North" in the Spectator of August 5th ? The rhyme is found in "The Bole......

An Oxford Blockhouse. Poetry.

[Reminiscences of life in the Orange River Colony with the Second Contin- gent of Oxford University Volunteers during the late War.] THERE were eight of us held a Blockhouse,......

Heretics.*

BOOKS. Mn. CHESTERTON is an uproarious person, and this is as it should be; for Wisdom is justified of all her children. But Mr. Chesterton is an uproarious person on principle;......

Lady Fanshawe's Memoirs.

pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sra,—In reference to the review of Lady Fanshawe's Memoirs in the Spectator of August 5th, I wish to say that I was asked by the publisher......