23 DECEMBER 1899, page 14

Sir Henry Jenkyns.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I have read with great interest your account of the late Sir Henry Jenkyns in the Spectator of December 16th, and I was particularly......

Squirrels In A City.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I can name one other place where squirrels run at large in the heart of a city. In the Plaza, opposite the cathedral of Oaxaca, Mexico,......

The Cape Dutch.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—All will agree with your article on " The Cape Dutch" in the Spectator of December 9th that the Cape Ministry had a most difficult game......

Mrs. Dearmer's Stories For Children. [to The Editor Of The

"SPECTATOR. "] SIR —I have looked through Mrs. Dearmer's "Book of Penny Toys," and the simple answer to her defence of the use of " tragedy " so-called in such books seems to me......

Lord Randolph Churchill And The Decimals.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:'] SIR,—With regard to the story quoted by you in the Spectator of December 9th from Sir Algernon West's " Recollections " —that Lord Randolph......

Assaye.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—As to the loss at Assaye, I submit the following extract from Colonel Biddulph's excellent book, "The Nineteenth and their Times,"......

[to The Editor Of The "spectator."] Sin,—with Reference...

cutting on above subject from the Chicago Post, sent to the Spectator of December 2nd by Mr. W. J. Stillman, the following extract from my diary may be of interest to some of......