31 JULY 1897, page 16

A Baby Bat.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The following extract from a letter from a friend may interest your readers :—" The other evening, as L, and I sat out on the verandah......

English Slang.

130 THN EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR'] SIR.—You may be interested in the use of the word "to lamm "—in a variant spelling—and the derivation given in " Peveril of the Peak," chap.......

Irish Visions.

rro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SHI,—Your correspondent "D. S.," in the Spectator of July 24th, under the heading "Irish Visions," touches an interesting subject and of......

Coincidences.

[To TER EDITOR OW TRH “13111CTATORn Sut,—The following statement of what I take to be a genuine coincidence may possibly interest your readers. A few weeks ago, being at Milan,......

Sir John Tenniel's Indian Cartoon.

[TO TEE EDITOE Or THE " SPI.CTLTOR71 SIE, — Has not "A Student of History," in the Spectator of July 24th, in his zeal for Sir Charles Napier and Sir Henry Lawrence......