12 SEPTEMBER 1931, page 15

Musical Settings Of Poems

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Apropos of the letter of A. R. C. in your issue of August 22nd—" Musical Settings of Poems "—a diary of a recent personal experience is......

Gibbon And Fanny Burney

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—.Mr. Forster, in the second of his singularly interesting articles, writes of the famous author of the Decline and Fall as being, at one......

English As She Is Written

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" Purist's " letter in your last issue gave just those detestable errors which are all too prevalent in our daily Press. There are others......

Shortage Of Nurses

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The letters published by you on the question of the Shortage of Nurses " are most interesting. Miss Bacon speaks for many of us in her......

Titiie Barns.

In reply to Mr. G. S. Hewin's letter in September 5th issue, there is a wonderfully preserved tithe barn at Stanway, in Gloucestershire, adjoining Lord Wemyss' property.—GERARD......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sta,—your Correspondent...

himself " Purist," in criticizing the use of the word " Protagonist," derives it from protos antagonistes. Surely he should have written prolog agoniStcs. This may be merely a......

Points From Letters

AN EXPENSIVE MEAL. Original Poems for Infant Minds was not published in 1859, but before even you were born : in 1800, by Darton and Harvey, Gracechurch Street. The verses were......

Deer In Sussex Woodlands

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Could not Mr. Bickersteth hand over the reduction of his fallow deer to those humanitarians, in the R.S.P.C.A. and elsewhere, who are so......