The Consumption Of Tea.
[To THE EDITOR OP TEM ..SrEerryos.".1 Six, — I am sorry to trouble you to correct a stupid error with reference to the consumption of tea in 1886, which occurred in my letter to......
Art.
THE GROSVENOR GALLERY EXHIBITION. [FIRST NOTICE.] Sea COUTTS LINDSAY leaves the management of the Grosvenor Gallery—at all events, the hanging of the pictures — too much to his......
Malaprops And Portmantologisms.
[To THE EDITOR Or TEE "1316CTATOR..1 Sca, Will you allow me to add a couple of examples to the Amusing specimens of lapsus ling= that have recently appeared in your pages P Many......
Mr. Parnell And The Spectator.
[To THE EDITOE Or THE SPECSAEOL".1 SIR,—I am this week desiring my newsagent to cease sending me the Spectator, thus closing a continuous subscription of just a quarter of a......
Poetry.
SONG. Ie words were not so weak To tell our best thoughts, dear, Then I might speak, And you might hear. If Earth were not so bleak, Our roses might not die, — And I might seek......
Word-twisting And Etymology. [to Tee Editor 01 Tes N...
Sea, — The instances of word-twisting hazarded by your corre- spondent "J. K., " will scarcely, I think, bear examination. Passing over the fact that the transposition of......