[to The Editor Of The " Spectator."]
Sm—In the review of " Common Objects of the Riviera," in your issue of March 15th, the following couplet is quoted as being inscribed on Lord Brougham's statue at Cannes "Inveni......
Carlyle On Change.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — It is hardly likely that the meaning Carlyle gives to " wuotan," the Old High German form of Odin, is correct. In the passage quoted......
First Bloodhound Rvidenor Bncland.•:- Pro The'zditor Or...
notice in the issue of your-paper;. Aftireh 'Teti= that Major Richardson claims to-have-obtained with his hounds the first:criminal conviction on bloodhound evidence in England.......
"the Problem Of The Godless Good."
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Your correspondent " F. G. C." writing from Constanti- nople quotes Wordsworth's " Ode to Duty " as an illustration of your• very......
The Origin Of " Oxford " And " Cambridge."
[TO THE EDITOR Or THY "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Is not your correspondent " Oxoniensis " in error in his derivation of the names Cam-bridge and Ox-ford ? Cam is, of course, "crooked,"......
Miss Austen And Conservatism.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ) SIR, Was it really that Miss Austen, as your article of February 15th has it, was kindly "content with things as she and her characters......
Nebuchadnezzar.
[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, — I think your opinion is quite correct that it was the subject of the Newdigate in 1852, " Belshazzar's Feast," which gave rise to......
"common • Objects Of The Riviera."
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Those of your readers who have felt the attraction of the coast of Provence, so well described in your review of the above book, may......
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