29 JUNE 1918, page 12

Gooseberries.

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sza,—Mr. St. John Mildmay's condemnation of the Order referring to gooseberries has apparently been written in ignorance of the terms of the......

Browning Or Lamb?

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] flit,—In the third instalment of Mrs. Humphry Ward's " A Writer's Recollections," in the May tumber of Cornhill, she writes of Browning:—......

Poetry.

TO A GRANDCHILD—AGED ONE WEEK. Aa, Dearest, you were bold and wise, Brave father's braver daughter, You dared to face a world grown old In fire and storm and slaughter. You......

Dr. Montessori's New Book.

!To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,—Mr. Richard Crook pleads with great force against Dr. Montessori and in favour of what one might irreverently call the inethods of Dr.......

"the Value Of The Classics."

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—It is long from April 13th till this can reach you, but I hope your enjoyable abstract of the Princeton volume on The Value of the......

" Howlers."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sit,—Mr. H. C. Irwin's story of the Skolekobrote seems to have been either a forerunner or else a relic of a verse current in Oxford......

The William De Morgan Chelsea Memorial Tablet.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The William De Morgan Chelsea Memorial Tablet is to be unveiled in Chelsea Old Church, Cheyne Walk, at 6 o'clock on Thursday, July......

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