19 JULY 1913, page 19

"by The Brown Bog."

[To THE EDITOR er THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A review having appeared in a prominent weekly paper attributing to us the authorship of a recently published volume of Irish stories,......

The Docking Of Horses.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR...1 Sin,—I beg your permission to call public attention to the " Bill to Prohibit the Docking of Horses," in the preparation of which we have......

Books.

ROME AND MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.* IN spite of the obvious danger of establishing doubtful analogies and of making insufficient allowance for differences, the history of Imperial......

Poetry.

AFTER READING E. M.'s BOOK OF GEORGIAN POETRY. FRIEND, born with me in full Victorian days, When Palmerston proud-voiced our glorious State, And Tennyson was England's Laureate,......

The Commons Preservation Society Fund.

[Cheques should be addressed to the Spectator,1 Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C., and made payable to the Spectator and crossed " Barclay and Co., Gosling's Branch,......

"communicated," The Editor Must Not Neceosarily Be Held...

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