Shakespeare And The " Oxford Dictionary."
[To TUB EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] RJR,—I have noticed some peculiarities in the Oxford Dictionary, which I should be glad if some of your readers could explain. The first......
Limericks.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sm,—Your contributor writing on " Limericks " says that he remembers that a collection published in the latter part of the nineteenth......
A " Via Sacra."
[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sm,—A propos of Captain Gillespie's suggestion to make a road- s ria sacra—from the sea to Switzerland, may I ask the hospitality of your......
Lucan On The War.
[To TUE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—May we not adapt what Luoan says of Curio?— " llomentumque fuit mutatus Ferdino rernm." —Phars, IV. 819. By the way, he attributes to......
[to The Editor Of The " Spectator. "] Sin,—" What Lear
did was to adapt the form to a special purpose—to make it the vehicle of sheer, irresponsible, innocent nonsense." I remember Lear's first Book of Nonsense, but am under the......
Missing.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sts,—The Queen Victoria Jubilee Fund Association, Rue Muzzy No. 15, Geneva, states that it has special permission from the German authori-......
On Consulting The Dictionary.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIB, —May a foreigner express his opinion on the above subject ? " C. L. D." in his letter published on August 12th says that the Concise......
Speed The Plough.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Srs,—Mr. Green in his reply to my letter on the above subject, in your issue of September 9th, states that the interest on American loans is......
New Zealand Soldier Students.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Perhaps the enclosed clipping from the Press of to-day may be thought interesting enough to give to your readers.—I am, Sir, &e., "......
T111j• Anti-whistling Rulf..
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] connexion with the recently issued Order forbidding whistling for cabs, the following extract from the laws of former times may be thought......
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