Ignorance Of The People.
If the people of England are yet too generally ill-educated and grossly ignorant and prejudiced, it is to be recollected that our civilization is recent, that our towns are of......
Literary Spectator.
We must not neglect to commemorate a very pretty work, which would have entertained and instructed us mightily had we not happened to know it all before—we mean the Stories of......
A Hundred Years Ago
THE SPECTATOR, JULY 18TH, 1829. REFORM OF PARLIAMENT. For years it has been confessed on all sides, that the actual constitution of the House of Commons is by no means faithful......
Correspondence
A LETTER PROM VIENNA A. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Some time ago the outside world seemed to have lost interest in Vienna, except for child-starvation and riots. But......
A Leiter From Siam.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The connexion between Siam and ancient Rome certainly seems remote. Yet a Roman lamp of undoubted antiquity has been discovered in a......