[to The Editor Of The " Spectator."] Sir, —the Following
will probably be new to most of your readers. The Senior Bailie of a Royal Burgh in the North of Scotland, who still sits in judgment on the local unfortunates, was recently......
" Idlers In The Land."
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In the Spectator of August 3rd, p. 140, you say :—" Have not our best poets, as Mr. Lowell says, all been idlers in the land' ? "......
Students' - Blunders.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIRI venture to submit to your readers another specimen of spirituel mistranslation :—" Hoc erat in votis :" " This occurred during......
[to The Editor On The " Spectator."]
SIR,—In your article with the above heading, you mention several remarkable verdicts, but perhaps none so amusing as that of a Welsh jury (who must have had, one would think,......
The ‘ittelf, De Paris.'
(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —The Ville de Paris,' captured by Rodney in 1782, foundered in that tremendous gale which wrecked so many of the prizes on their way to......
Poetry.
ADORATION. LET us not pray as to some distant God ; Always imploring palms we stretch toward heaven, As though we drew the consecration down, And miss the sacred wells that gush......
Art.
THE FRENCH EXHIBITION. [SECOND NOTICE.—THE FOREIGN SCHOOLS.] IT is interesting to observe the various degrees of intensity in which the influence of French technical art......
[to The Editor Of The " Spectator."]
SiR,—An ingenious translation made by a boy in the same form as myself is recalled to me by the' letters on the above subject :—"Et rem carmine signo:" "And I sign the document......
Sun-dial Inscriptions.
[To mas EDITOR OF THY "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin.,—In the Spectator of August 10th, a former Vicar of Wisbech mentions the fact that on the south wall of the south porch of the parish......
[to Tee Editor Ow The " Sprctator." ] Sin,—the Scotch
Bailie who made such a charming jumble of a " bountiful Providence "—health and strength, and hen- stealing—was surpassed by a Warrington Justice only a few years ago, who tried......
[to The Editor Of The " Spectator. "]
STS,—Has no Oxford man reminded you that "Pereunt et imputantur " is emblazoned on the dial of All Souls' College, and that it comes from an epigram of Martial (v. 20) :— "Nunc......
Humours Of 113e Bench.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — In the leading article in the Spectator of August 17th, "Humours of the Bench," you give the following as the sentence pronounced by......
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