14 APRIL 1917, page 13

Proportional Representa1 Ion. (to The Editor Or The "...

Sin,—Permit me to say how strongly the British Constitution 'Association has upheld the need of Proportional Representation. The decay of the influence of Parliament has been......

B 0 0 K S .

A STOIC.* OF Stoics in the modern sense there are millions just now. Our brave men in the Somme trenches and on the North Sea endure discomfort and peril as uncomplainingly as......

"mrs. Whyte-melville's Carriage Stops The Way!"

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your article on " Our Friend the Horse," alluding as it does to our great sportsman-author Whyte-Melville, reminds me of a story he......

A Cigar In A Tight Place.

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR ,—Whyte-MElville was not alone in having recourse to tobacco " when he faced a difficult country." I was told 1.4 a trooper of the 3rd......

Tennyson As Prophet.

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR ."I SIR,—You may think the following lines remarkable as a fore- cast:— "Gigantic daughter of the West, We drink to thee across the flood, We......

Poetry.

ECTITANASY. Pnixce Azesre, wan Azrael, The ghastly Cavalier, To view this battle-field of earth On his pale horse drew near. Ah! never since our world had birth More terrible......

Geoffrey Lupton.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—. - News has come to hand that on February 17th Geoffrey Lupton, private in the Royal Fusiliers, was killed at the front, aged......