16 MAY 1903, page 12

Letters To The Editor.

THE RELATIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN WITH RUSSIA. (To TRH EDITOR Or TOR "SPECTATOR:1 am glad that the strongest protest against Lord Lansdowne's • declaration regarding the Persian......

Carpenter Birds.

T HE Romans apparently looked on the woodpecker as the first inventor of spirit-rapping, and identified it with a remarkably old-fashioned god who had the gift of rustic......