18 SEPTEMBER 1926, page 17

The Westminster Campanile

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn,—I wonder whether 'any of your readers could tell me whether the campanile of the fine Westminster Cathedral is slightly out of the......

Poetry

PAESTUM VESTIGE of long decay Proudly these pillars wear ; Sailors no longer pray Neptune their keel to bear Over the waves to Athens or Corinth sailing away. Snapdragon springs......

" Comrade Jill "

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your notice of my book Comrade Jill you say " In the first chapters the scene is apparently set for a revolutionary outbreak . . . then......

Sin,—in Your Review Of Mr. Ford's To-day And To-morrow,...

11th, p. 384, you state that " there are only twenty-three millions of stationary horsepower on earth." The Report of the Water-power Committee of the Conjoint Board of......

The Right Stone For Churchyard Monuments [to The Editor Of

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There have at times appeared in some of our principal newspapers articles and correspondence on the question whether local stone or marble should be used......