30 OCTOBER 1915, page 18

Shopkeepers.

[TO TDB EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, In the paper on " Shopkeepers " in last week's Spectator the question is asked " When does a shopkeeper attain the dignity of a......

An Early Allusion To Pacificists. [to The Editor Of The

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your contemporary the New York Nation, of the 14th inst. contains a letter from a correspondent in which the following passage occurs : — " I think I have......

A Tribute To Miss Cavell.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,..] Sirt,—Few deeds have struck more horror into English minds than the cold-blooded killing of Nurse Cavell. I do not know whether or not she......

The Journeys Of Zeppelins.

rye 'PUN EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."1 Sin,--A mathematician recently asked his pupils the following questions :- "Assume that a Zeppelin has to travel two hundred miles from its......

" Woken."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIn, — Like Canon Lyttelton, I confess to a mild surprise on reading the word " woken " in the columns of the Spectator, The expression is......

" With The Immortals." Fro The Editor Or The ..srretkton."]

SIR,—The taking of in-tea from the classics is doubtless an idle and superstitious practice. Still, the following series of sortes may strike you, as it struck me, as uncannily......