19 JANUARY 1929, page 13

Poetry

The Return OPEN the front door and look down the street. Mary is coming home again to-night. In the low window swing the yellow light That it may comfort her with welcome sweet.......

A Hundred Years Ago

THE " SPECTATOR," JANUARY 17TH, 1829,. THE MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Samuel Probin was indicted for a nuisance. It Appeared that he had possession of two houses in a court that turned......

Correspondence

LITERARY LETTER FROM ITALY. [To ..the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] • • —The Italian literary world is beginning to be organized on more practical lines than. in the past. I am not......