15 NOVEMBER 1913, page 32

Evicted Peasants' Humour.

[To THE EDITOR or TRY "SPECTATOR. "' Sin,—On p. 689 of the Supplement to your issue of Nov. let last, as a specimen of the humour of the sixteenth-century evicted peasant, are......

"flabby And Insipid Geniality."

ITO THE EDITOR or THE " STECTATOR.'l SIR,—The Prime Minister certainly hit the nail on the head in his warning at the recent meeting in the Queen's Hall lest those who......

[to The Editor Or The "sine - Urea:1 Sir,—with Reference...

question, " Plagiarism or Coincidence ?" raised by a correspondent in your issue of November 8th, I beg to state that the stanza he quotes (the third) of "The Farewell," by......

Plagiarism Or Coincidence ?

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIR, —If your correspondent will turn to Hogg's Jacobite Relies he will find the ballad, "It was a' for our rightfu King," in every respect......

Geological Days.

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In your issue of November 1st there is a quotation from Thackeray that " We have God's own word (in His com- mandments) that He made the......

Mr. Arnold Mitchell's £110 Cottage.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Undoubtedly there is a superficial resemblance between Mr. Troup's scheme and that of my standard cottage. The vital differences are :......

The Moral Obligation To Be Intelligent.

[To THE EDITOR or THE •• SPECTATOL'I Sin,—In the Spectator for October 18th you devote an editorial to my essay on "The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent," which appeared in......

[to The Editor Or The "sraczeroa. - ] Srn,—one Of Your...

has touched on Scott's delightful lyric, " A Weary Lot is Thine, Fair Maid." Can you find room for a concluding stanza, written, I think, by an Irishwoman P- " The lady heard,......