The Word "raid " As Used In Italy.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Present-day journalists in Italy are giving an excellent object lesson of how one word of another tongue is adopted and used in an......
Wasps As Animals' Food.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — Apropos of your correspondent's (" T. C. F.") inquiry as to rats eating wasps, I would state that our dog, although stung......
The Cow-dealer And The Quaker : A Study In Leicestershire
DIALECT, [To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—The new cow had come that morning, and the dealer whom I always employed to buy cows for me had called " joost ter see 'ow......
Hastings Of Woodlands.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — Shaftesbury does not say that Hastings was a book- lover and the whole tenor of the account is against the idea. That bard riding,......
The National Service League—a Correction.
[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In the last few weeks it has been frequently and erroneously stated that the national army advocated by the National Service League......
[to The Editor 07 The " Spectator."] Sir,—apropos Of T.
C. F.'s letter in your issue of Saturday last, it might perhaps interest your readers to hear of another odd instance of a predilection shown for wasps—this time by a chicken in......
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