Sweepstakes.
One hears so much about the impracticability of an English hospitals sweepstake because of its effect upon present sub- scribers that you may be interested in a letter which I......
Water Divining
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the year 1885, I was Assistant Curate of Forest Row, Sussex, in which my kind friend Mr. Charles Bell, (afterwards Sir Charles Morrison......
Tithe.
[To the Editor of the SPECTAT0R.1 Sin,—Tithe Distraint sales are producing most undesirable results—especially. in East Anglia. Though on an averdge the present rate is quite......
Tee Oldest Living Cyclist
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Thirty-six veteran cyclists have taken the trouble to help in the inquiry which I made a week or two ago in regard- to the oldest living......
Cancer.
Perhaps the reason primitive peoples are largely immune from cancer is that they do not live long enough to contract cancer, or any other old age disease.—JOSEPII BANISTER, 11......
Poetry
To Youth IlxnuTy . shall break her blossom, the gold stem of the trumpet be yours to hold. Young green shall reach from the dark, driving its way through a cramping bark, like......
Points From Letters
LADY WHEELER. In The Indian Mutiny in Perspective, page 99, Sir George MacMunn revives the legend that the unfortunate Lady Wheeler, of Cawnpore, was a Brahmin lady, and builds......
Ruskin And The Unemployed
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your article on "The Spectator and the Election" you say, We hope that a new principle of giving unemployment benefit will also be......
[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sir ,—i Came Across
a family of water diviners in Essex some years ago, but only the female- members possessed the power.- Even the little girl of six had it, though she lost it temporarily during......
Stone Altars.
I should be much interested to know whether any of your correspondents can mention instances of Anglican churches in which the Holy Table or Altar is of stone. There is or was......
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