17 MAY 1902, page 14

Ito The Editor Op The " Spectator."]

Sra,—I beg that I may be permitted to supplement Mr. Reginald Lucas's most interesting communication in the Spectator of May 10th on Wellington's matchless soldiers in his......

"on The Old Trail." (bret Harte, May Sun, 1902.) Long

and long we rode behind you, Comrade, on the olden trail ; By the cation, by the mesa, Hearts of ours caught up your hail. Where the golden poppies flicker On the foot-hills'......

Poetry.

" LE PAYS DE REVENANTS." (MARTINIQUE.) NESTLING upon the bosom of the deep Where all day long tle golden sunbeams rest, Fair as an infant smiling in its sleep, She lay, the......

The Two Imperialisms.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] • Sur,—I was greatly interested in the above able and suggestive article in the Spectator of May 10th, and sympathise with what I take to be......

The Legend Of Waterloo.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The Duke of Wellington was probably correct in think- ing that his seasoned army of the Peninsula could have easily beaten the massed......

"ploughing- The Sands."

(TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, —It is difficult to believe that any educated man should have imagined that Mr. Asquith's phrase, "ploughing the sands," was an original......