15 FEBRUARY 1919, page 17

Books.

FORTY DAYS IN 1514.* TAM is the best book that we have yet seen concerning the war. It treats, to be sure, only of the first six weeks of its duration, but these were the......

Poetry.

THE ROMAN ROAD. I LOVE the grass-grown Roman Road Crossing the bosom of the downs, To conjure up the life that flowed From all the busy bygone towns. Beneath the sward, the......

The Socdolaoer.

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR ") Sm,—The author of The Cloekmaker makes use of this word in The Alf ache, or Sam Slick in England:— "Mr. Slick proceeded to the residence of......

"england's Dead."

[To THE EDITOR or TER “SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — In your issue of January 4th Mr. Grieve rebukes me rather severely for using a title for some verses of mine which Mrs. Reasons had......

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