16 MAY 1931, page 16

A Book On Colour.

I propose to publish a documentary book on Colour dealing with all questions appertaining to the relations of the negro and the white Tapes: I want to receive contributions from......

A Hundred Years Ago

THE " SPECTATOR," MAY 14TH, 1831. DUKE OF BEAUFORT V. THE " SPECTATOR." On Saturday last, Sir James Scarlett moved the Court of King's Bench for a criminal information against......

The Ideal Home Exhibition [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

Sin,— I went to the Ideal Home Exhibition being a seeker after ideals. But the Home evades me, it is always just beyond my reach, so I had to turn away from houses, and look at......

Pye

THERE was a soldier wise enough Even in fierce Homeric years To leave the wars : within his casque He let the silkworm spin and bask, And vines grow tendrils round the spears.......

Herons In London.

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The Messiah Jesus And John The Baptist

--fTo - the . Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—That " Evelyn Underhill " should have written this review as printed on p. 7C8 is to me almost incredible. It would seem, indeed, as......

Wild Goats In North Devon

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—I think that I can throw light on the question as to how the herd of .long-horned and white-coated goats got to the Valley of Rocks in......

Points From Letters

A BIOGRAPIIY OF " E. NESBIT." I should be grateful for an opportunity of informing your readers that I am writing the biography of the late E. Nesbit " (Mrs. Hubert Bland until......

Books For S.w. Africa.

A few days ago I saw in your columns a letter from a professor in India acknowledging gifts of books made to the college library in response to an appeal in your review about a......