24 AUGUST 1929, page 12

Correspondence

• A LETTER FROM NEW ZEALAND. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With the advent of another winter, we in New Zealand are facing up to what has become, in the course of the......

Poetry

Asaph ASAPH lived on a bare mountain : The wind bit him, and he cried. The wind bit him, or crept slowly Beneath his coat from side to side Until he cried. Spiders came with......

A Hundred Years Ago

THE "SPECTATOR," AUGUST 22, 1829. ARISTOCRATICAL OPPRESSION. A curious case was tried at the Leicester Assizes last week, in which the Rev. Mr. Trimmer, rector of Buclmainster,......