25 DECEMBER 1915, page 16

The Spider And The Fly.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—It is strange that the writer of the article on spiders (November 27th) should have remembered Wordsworth's lines to the fly and......

Subterranean Passages.

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sun,--Mr. Lloyd Parry, of Exeter, says it would be interesting to know of other places besides Exeter possessing these. Has ho ever heard of......

Epigrams.

]To TUE EDITOR OF TOE " SPECTATOR.") Snl,—In your review of the collection of epigrams in the " Oxford Garlands " (Spectator, December 4th) I am asked for my authority as to the......

Pins.

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPEOTATOE."] SIB, —In a recent article in the Spectator the writer quotes a remark made by a French officer to Mr. Rudyard Kipling, which was to the......

Christmas Appeal Of The Y.m.c.a.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Our bravo soldiers at the front cannot themselves make an individual appeal to those at home. The Y.M.C.A. speaks in their name.......

The Australians At Anzac.

[To THE EDITOR OT THID " SPECTATOR. " ] Sut,—The verses " To the Women they have Left," set out in a letter of Mrs. M. Parkinson in your issue of the 11th inst., were written by......

Shakespeare And The War.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPBCTATOR.1 SIE,—It has occurred to me, a constant reader of the Spectator, that the following lines of Shakespeare may excite interest at the present......

An Outpost.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The public's first thought must naturally be given to the fighting line. I plead for a second thought, a thought for an outpost on home......