14 JANUARY 1899, page 14

Old-age Pensions.

[To TIE EDITOR Or TUN " SPROTATOIL"] SIR,—I think your old-age pension scheme is splendid. The only thing I would suggest is that it is a mistake to utilise the machinery of the......

The "in Me Mo Rtam " Metre. [to Tie Marro'

or Tar "arm:rms.") SIR,—There has always been a good deal of controversy over the genesis of the metre in which Tennyson wrote his "In Memoriam." The quatrain with rhymes......

[to Tim Eprroa Op Tee A 'sritcrana."] Sin,—your...

X.," in the Spectator of January 7th, has put in very convincing language a fact which has been daily demonstrated at Nordrach, in Southern Germany, for the last ten years and......

Catching Cold.

[To TER EDITOR Or TER "SPECTATOR :l Sig,—It is a common experience in Northern India among officers who spend a considerable part of the cold weather under canvas that colds are......

Systematised Confession. [to The Editor Of Tel "...

SIR, — On the third page of the Spectator for January 7th you appear to regard " compulsory " and " systematised " con- fession as equally unlawful in the Church of England. I......