Should Like To Say A Word About A - Friend Of Mine,
whose letters to his father and mother at home I have been allowed to see. The writer while still in his native Somersetshire village worked as a collier, and was a young man of......
[to The Editor Of The "spectator"
Sin,—The confusion as to the date when a new century commences seems to be no new thing. In Scott ' s " Life of Dryden " —Sect. viii.—occurs the following passage " It was......
The Cape Dutch.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I desire to thank you for your sympathetic treat- ment in the Spectator of December 30th of my appeal on behalf of our Dutch......
The New Century.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—May I point out that the question of the " close of the century " is not one to be settled by arithmetic as you seem to suppose, but......
[to The Editor Of The "spectator. "] Sir, — It Would Be...
hard on this " so-called nineteenth century" if it were hurried out of existence before the com- pletion of the very nineteenth-century year which gave it its name,—the year......
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