13 JUNE 1914, page 17

Poetry.

THE WORLD'S WORK. I SAW a sailor seated on the deck, Who showed a boy the working of a knot, The man was old—the weather-beaten wreck Of stormy seas and an unlucky lot. In......

Books.

JOHN DRYDEN.* [Commute/ma] IP anyone were to inquire what place Dryden to•day holds in general esteem, the phrase Slat magni nominis umbra would perhaps afford the truest......

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