An Ancient Parallel To The " Militants."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The following passage from the Decline and Fall may perhaps be of interest as affording a kind of parallel to the activities of the......

A Correction.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — You do not seem to have noticed that the argument of the Church Times rests upon a misrepresentation of the statute 1 Edward VI.,......

- The Irish " After."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOIt."] Sin,—Not for the first time our good friend Mr. Punch has fallen into a vulgar error among Englishmen with regard to the use of the word "......

Two Somerset Superstitions.

170 7"HE EDITOR Or THU " SFECTATOR.1 SIR,—Two superstitions related to me in a letter received from my native county of Somerset are quite new to me. I should be interested to......

Mary Asterisk.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "ISPECTA70E•"] SIR,—On p. 50 of your last issue I read: "It is certainly an open question whether the highly taught woman of to-day is as charming as was......

Two Bird Stories.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SnicrAroa."] SIR,—One man's misfortune is frequently another man's opportunity, but it is, I think, somewhat unusual for a bird to profit by the calamity......