14 SEPTEMBER 1918, Page 12

AUTHOR FOUND.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The author wanted by your correspondent L. A. Scot, is R. C. Stead. The poem entitled " Mother and Son," of which the last verse is quoted, may be found in The Old Country: a Book of Lore and Praise of England, edited by Ernest Rhys, and published by J. M. Dent and Sons.—I am, Sir, &c., KATHLEEN M. ALDEN.

The Croft, Wolvereote, Oxford.