15 JUNE 1912, page 18

Poetry.

• HOUSEHOLD GODS. THE Baby takes to her bed at night A one-eyed rabbit that once-was white ; A watch that came from a cracker, I think ; And a lidless inkpot that never held......

Books For The N.w. Mounted Police. [to Tiin Editor Op

THE "SPRCTATOR.1 Sin,—Referring to the appeal for books for the Royal North-West Mounted Police at Regina, Canada, which appeared in your issue of June 8th, may I beg all......

The Blake Society.

[10 Till EDITOR or Tae " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The Blake Society, the principal object of which is to bring together the admirers of William Blake, the poet-painter, has been......

Art.

PUBLIC PICTURES. IN recent years there have been 'signs and portents that with the increasing consciousness (for good or evil) of English art. has come the desire of our younger......

[to This Editor Ot The " Sprotator."] A Review Of

a book by Mrs. Fuller Maitland in 'our issue' of June lst' . the following sentence . is quoted : 4 My idea of a bore is 'a being whose utterances can always lie forecasted." Is......

[to Tru Editor Of Ilia " Strctator."] Sin,—the...

by " Thormanby " in the Spectator of June 8th reminds me that at a gathering of college students lately it was stated by some of those present that they had heard the......

"rude " Health. •

'To TER EDITOR. or TEM " SPRCTATOR."J Sin,--The above phrase-comes to us from the Latin "cruda. gains," the initial " c" in "crude" being dropped by phonetic Licence. That......

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