The Fur Crusade
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The following extracts from a letter received from the President of the-o-Antr-Steel-Trap League, which is the most its kind in America,......
General Knowledge.
I was surprised to see your well-informed paper perpetuating a misstatement. On p. 558 of the number for April 4th your readers are told that Augustus added a day to the month......
Execution.
On Saturday, Richard Nock - olds, convicted of setting fire to the premises of Mr. Duchel, at Swanton Abbot, was executed at Norwich. He acknowledged his guilt.......
A Hundred Years Ago
A vessel has been fitted up at Chatham, for the reception of four hundred boys not exceeding fifteen years of age, who, under the old system, would have been sent out of the......
[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sm,—i Collected Eggs At
two periods of my life, and amongst them I had cuckoo eggs. I found a bluish egg in a nest where the remainder were a dull spotted white. I have bought supposed cuckoo eggs, but......
Points From Letters
DIET AND CANCER. The article by Mr. Ellis Barker, on Cancer and Diet, was of special interest to me, because all his conclusions are exactly those of most of us who have......
[to The Editor Of The Spectator.]
SIR,—The Secretary of the Pit Ponies Protection Society has proved that during four years there were no fewer than 382 cases of ill-treatment to these animals fined in the......
Pit Ponies [to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sir, Miss
Gardner observes that, if I consider that her quotations have been misleading, " the official Mines Reports are open to inspection by your readers, and they can form their own......
The Cuckoo [to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sir,—mr....
is right when he says that I doubt the truth of Wegner's statement about the cuckoo being able to colour her eggs, so that they will match the eggs of the foster- parent. I have......
The Competitions
THE second of the new series of Spectator competitions will be found on page 648. A mistake was unfortunately made last week in the announcement made in this column. The report......
[to The Editor Of The Spemator.] Sir,—at Last Somebody Has
written to the papers about the wonderful red bird which has been flying about the Green Park. Sir William Beach Thomas asks what bird it is. It is a Cardinal bird, such as......
The Red Bird In The Green Park [to The Editor
of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The red bird in the Green Park mentioned by Sir W. Beach Thomas in the Spectator for April 11th (p. 582), is no doubt a Scarlet Tanager, which was......
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