[to The Editor Or The "spectator."' Sir,—in Reply To Your
correspondent I know of no more beautiful and appropriate form of grace before meat than the second verse of the 103rd Psalm in the Authorized Version. " Bless the Lord, 0 my......
[to The Editor Or Vhe "spectator., Sir, — In Charles...
" Grace Before Meat," he tells of a pleasant school-fellow, C. V. L., who, when importuned for a grace, used to inquire, "Is there no clergyman here P " significantly adding"......
[to The Editor Of The "spectator."1
Sin,—A common Oxford form is, or was, as follows : Before, " Benedictus benedicat" ; after, " Benedict° bene-......
[to The Editor Op The " Spectator. "] Sir, — Here Are Some
forms of "Grace before Meat" for M. Smith to choose from: (1) "May God supply the wants of others and give us grateful hearts "; (2) " For these and all His mercies God's Holy......
[to The Editor Of The "spectator."] Sir, — May I Suggest The
following form of grace before meat as brief and reverent ?—" Bless, 0 Lord God, thews Thy gifts to our use and us to Thy service."—I am, Sir, Oxford. Oxford. [We have been......
Art And The Camera.
[To THY EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. 1 SIR,—My ambition as a critic is always to talk the plainest sense in the simplest English. I am therefore greatly troubled by your reviewer's......
Grace Before And After Meat.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your correspondent desiring forms of grace before meat stipulates that they shall be in English. He may not object to be reminded of two......
[to The Editor Or The "spectator."]
SIR,—What grace can be more brief, pithy, and reverent than that of the German peasant :— "Komm, Herr Jean, sei unser Gast, Und segne was Du uns bescheret hast." ("Come, Lord......
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 Of The " Spectator. "] Sir, — Your...
Smith, asks for a pithy yet reverent "grace before meat." I wonder if she knows the following quaint verse of Herrick's, which I venture to send " Here, a little child, I stand,......
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