A Hundred Years Ago Tax " Spectator," July 14th, 1832.
• A fine gentleman, named Gooding, has lately been amusing him. self at the expense of the people of Fulham, where, under the sounding title of Baron Annandale, he had engaged a......
The Penn-gray Society [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]
Sut,—May I beg a few lines of your valuable space to make an appeal on behalf of the Penn-Gray Society, whose object is to save by purchase the land surrounding the ancient......
The English Countryside [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]...
the Press of New Zealand we get articles dealing with the sale of old cottages to Americans for export to the United States. Can the societies for the preservation of the......
The Wets And The Drys [to The Editor Of The
SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Another Horatian reference to the " wets " and the " drys " is to be found in the Fifth Ode of the Fourth Book, where, however, the difference is a matter of......
Points From Letters The Willesden Housing Society.
A garden party in aid of the Willesden Housing Society will take place next Saturday, July 16th, at St. Mary's Vicar- age, Old Willesden. A leading feature will be an autograph......
Poetry
Piatiletka OUR castles in the air must now be built as stone for air is ne'er so fair as stone and flesh and bone transmuting air to stone is done by Act alone for Dream breeds......
The Woodpecker's Note
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As throwing some light on the question of the vocal or mechanical origin of the woodpecker's note, which was dis- cussed in a recent......
Furniture
WHAT matters it—when there are some Roofless the long night, Guests of the world's hearthiess home, Warmed by a star's light— How we have furnished house or shed, While there is......
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