A Request.
(To Tug EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Can you tell me if anywhere in England there is any statue of John Penn, or of Hampden, or of Elliott, and where? Or can you direct me......
Berried Holly For The Birds.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIB,, —May I remind your readers that holly-berries are the natural food of various wild birds ? To deprive them of sustenance, at a time......
Mu Si C.
SALOME. FOR the main-spring of the drama of Salome, which is virtually identical with the libretto of Strauss's music drama, there is no authority whatever either in the New......
From An Article By Sydney Smith In The Edinburgh Review,
1802, may help to support your view that punishment should not be made too agreeable " ATTRACTION Or HANGING. A very curious circumstance took place in the kingdom of Denmark,......
Notice.—when Articles Or "correspondence" Are Signed With...
or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of......
Portable Cigarette-lighters.
[TO THY EDITOR OF THE "SpEcrwros.") SIR, —I often in a wind when the sun shines use a burning-glass for lighting cigarettes. Could you tell me whether the next time I take one......
Poetry.
AFTER TRINITY. WE have done with dogma and divinity, Easter and Whitsun past, The long, long Sundays after Trinity Are with us at last; The passionless Sundays after Trinity,......
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