25 JULY 1891, Page 15

THE ADVANCE OF SOCIALISM.

pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.".1 Sin,—For several days past, my proceeding to the strawberry.. beds in my garden has been most noisily and vigorously denounced by a grand blackbird, who manifestly considers his claim to the ripe fruit superior to mine. Half-inclined to attack me, he reluctantly betakes himself to a tree a few yards off, and thence vehemently and continuously protests

against my taking so unfair a portion of what he eloquently asserts to be the property of himself and his feathered friends. There can be no mistaking the meaning of his utterances and