Economical Speed.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Referring to the letter and your footnote on the above subject in your current issue, I made a number of experiments some years ago which......
An Irish Story.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I say that in your issue of the 7th, in referring to my short story, " The Witch," which appears in the April number of the National......
Acrostics.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Allow me a little egotism, or what may seem like it. Though a would-be solver intermittently for years past, I have never been a......
A Material Review.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] is very helpful to a shopkeeper to have his wares so carefully examined and authoritatively criticized. We get plenty of criticism, of course,......
" The Untidy Boy."
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—You like curiosities of literature. Does the following appeal to you ? A small boy of eleven here showed a rooted aversion to brushing his......
Poetry.
BROTHER OR STRANGER ? " He, nor that affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence." --SHAKESPEARE. BROTHER or stranger, active friend or foe ? I do not know......