A Dog's Vocabulary [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]
SIR,—Sir W. Beach Thomas's question will probably bring you more affirmative replies than you can spare room for. I have a dog who understands even a casual reference to " going......
Keats And The Nightingale [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]
• SIR,--Here in Japan the Spectator is passed on to me late, but Mr. D. H. Lawrence's article on " The Nightingale," in the copy for September 10th, prompts a protest from a......
Don Juan's Shipwreck [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]...
so-called " borrowings " are thus explained by Byroa himself in a letter to John Murray " With regard to the charges about the shipwreck, I think that I told you and Mr. -......
America's Purchases Of Works Of Art
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, 7 —Americans have perforce become accustomed to com- plaints anent their purchase of works of art from impecunious European owners. Such......
Lamartine's English Wife [to The Editor Of The...
A French friend, who is working on a study of Lamartine, poet and statesman, has asked me to help her to obtain information about his English wife. She tells me that Madame de......
" Hanging Johnny " [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]
Sra,—It is quite easy to hang a couple of innocent people -in a novel, but how often does it really happen that an innocent man or woman is hung ? It seems to me the public, in......
The Impatience Of A Parson [to The Editor Of The
SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The greater part of my letter about Mr. Sheppard was meant to be a lament that the bulk of the Press was luke- warm about his book. It was written in the spirit......
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