19 MAY 1900, page 16

Poetry.

THE SWALLOWS. IN ancient days when, under cloudless skies, Spring's earliest swallows touched the Italian shore, Sad-hearted mothers gazed with yearning eyes, And cried, "Our......

M U S I C.

THE COST OF A PRIVATE ORCHESTRA. A FEW years ago Lord Meath contributed to the Times a letter in which he set down a list of practical hints for benevolent......

"valueless Printed Matter."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOIL1 SrE,—I had intended to have written to you on this subject, which is of the gravest importance to all literary men, present and future; but as......

The Royal Academy.

[To THE EDITOR OF TIIE "SPECTATOR.") Sin, — May I call attention once more to the absurd conserva- tism of the Academy in permitting all artists to send in eight works? We are......

Mrs. Delay.

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR-1 Sur,—In your interesting notice of Mrs. Delany in the Spectator of April 28th you quote her words written in 1776, Nightgowns are worn without......