15 APRIL 1916, page 15

Poetry.

TO THE DISTANT ONE. Theo' wild byways I come to you, my love, Nor ask of those I meet the surest way: What way I turn I cannot go astray And miss you in my life. Tho' fate may......

The Union Flag.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In this far-off corner of the Empire there is a good deal of per- plexity in regard to the correct flag to fly on land. There is the......

Books.

■■■■••■■•■■■■ THE CENTURY OF THE RENAISSANCE.* Is the very interesting and instructive essay with which Mr Bodley has prefaced the English translation of M. Batiffore Century of......

A Swiss Boy On The Prussian Machine.

[To THE EDITOR OP TEl "SPECTATOR."] Srs,—In your review of Bigelow's Prussian Memories (Spectator, April 1st) I read the following : "In Prussia . . . the most powerful and......

Alcaics.

Fats falls the sunlight ; silvery, shivering Like leaves of aspens languidly quivering In fitful evening breezes, Ocean Slumbers, and stables his angry horses. How changed the......

Business Girls' Hostel

[To TITE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SrR,—Lord Sydenham and Mr. John Oxenham have made an appeal for "what is not" in a girl's life, which the Young Women's Christian......

War Saving.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—Wishin& to encourage a young person to save, I tried to pay 1.5s. 6d. and to obtain a War Savings book for her, but the Post Office......

Gomshall House Of Rest.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—For several years past numbers of brain-fagged and toil-debilitated clergy of scanty means, some of them with their equally overstrained......

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