Aluminium And Health
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of November 25th, the interesting article, " The Modern House," by G. M. Boumphrey, refers to the possibility of danger to......
Three Poems
For Anne Gregor y NEVER shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair. But I......
A Hundred Years Ago
THE " SPECTATOR," DECEMBER Jar, 1832. THE DO-NOTHING SYSTEM. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SLR,—I have road with great interest your " Rationale of Govern- ment Expenditure......
Cogito Ergo Sum
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn,—This splendid phrase is always credited to Descartes, yet in the second volume of Augustine's City of God, book 10, chap. 26, Augustine......
The Mitigation Of Noise
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—As an artist working in a populous neighbourhood, I am very much interested in the question of noise. I suppose nothing can prevent one's......
Our Supplements.—it Is Not Improbable That Some Of Our Best
readers are looking out for our gratuitous volume this month. If we do not gratify them, it is not because we have ceased to delight in scattering valuable, or at least what we......
The Gambling Curse
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—As your article says, an Act should be passed quickly to suppress Tote Clubs. Let the Government at the same time effect a moral reform......