14 MAY 1927, page 18

Short Letters Stocks And Whipping Posts.

With reference to letters in the Spectator about "Stocks and Whipping-Posts," allow me to remind you of my letter in the Spectator of May 6th, 1922, headed A Link with the......

Familiar Misquotations

To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A misquotation which has obtained almost universal currency, and has now, I regret to see, been perpetuated in the title of a novel,......

America And Prohibition

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Your correspondent, J. Simpson, writing in the Spectator of April 2nd, is perhaps not aware that some of the American newspapers are......

Poetry

The Chateau Garden I LIE in my bed at ease, And the black tops of the trees And the black boughs of the trees Sway in the grey night's breeze. At touch of pale even-tide The......