15 AUGUST 1925, page 16

Poetry

CROWNS LOVE'S touch is soft, and Death Is gentle, when he takes A sleeping child's light breath, Before it wakes ; But neither Death nor Love Moves softer than I move. Great is......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

Sin,—For the first time I saw this summer grey squirrels in the Oxford University Parks, and in the adjoining roads and gardens. I do not remember ever having seen there any red......

Rats And Snakes

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The following occurrence was recently related to me by a young farmer living on my estate in Monmouthshire. I give it in his own words :—......

The Squirrel War

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The only fault I have to find in your article on the grey squirrel is that it is not quite strong enough in condemna- tion. On this estate......

A Philosopher On Currency And Credit

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Very interesting and suggestive are your quotations from Bishop Berkeley's Querist. But he lived in the time of Queen Anne. Had he been......

A Forgotten Centenary

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] &a—The article under the above title in your issue of Atigust 8th, revives my hope that the biography of my uncle, Edward Gibbon Wakefield,......

£100 Prize For An Essay On Unemployment

AN American reader of the Spectator, Mr. Gabriel Wells,' has generously offered a prize of £100 for an essay on "Unemployment : Its Cause and Remedy." The maximum length of an......