Last Year The Committee Were Enabled To Send Seven Hundred
and ninety-six poor women for two or three weeks' holiday to the country. This year applications have been received from nearly one thousand women, and the number is increasing......
Sir, —some Few Years Ago, Whilst Strolling Across A Sandy...
on the prairies of South Manitoba, Canada, I saw an interesting and ludicrous sight,—about twenty or more " prairie chicken" bowing and scraping, cutting the most fantastic......
Sir,—i Should Be Grateful If You Will Allow Me Through
the medium of your columns to ask for light on the following short passage in "The Pope." Speaking of Caponsacchi's self-sacrifice, the Pope says (Smith, Elder, and Co.'s two-......
[to The Editor Op Tub "spectator."] Sir,—i Have Read With
great interest the review in the Spectator of June 4th of Miss Jekyll's book on " Old West Surrey." In the old expressions mentioned therein I recog- nise many—in fact, the......
[to The Editor Op Thy " Spectator. "] Sir,—the Report Of
the last speech day at Cooper's Hill in the Times of July 28th gives no precise information as to the future means decided on by Mr. Brodrick for obtaining civil engineers for......
[to Trh Editor Or Trh "sescrkvoa."1 Sin,—whether It Has Been
altogether the fault of theologians or not, the hatred of theological terms, and particularly of the unhappy word "sin," is always very evident in the lay free-lance. Sometimes......