1 APRIL 1916, page 15

The Children's Country Holidays Fund.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 8131,—I should be glad if you would kindly afford me an opportunity of making known to the charitable public the fact that the work of the......

Poetry.

CRUSADER. (By THE AUTHOR 011' "Thu SACRAXENT.") You took the cross, altho' you didn't show it, 'Twas graven on a heart and not a shield ; 'Twas for the cross, altho' you didn't......

Spring Flowers.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sre,—Your correspondent " Nemesis " in objecting to a flower show in war time seems to forget that it is the bounden duty of everybody too......

Mud Houses.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 San,—Tufo, volcanic mud solidified into semi-stone, was largely used in Pompeian days, as now in Italy, for house-building. It evidently Jet......

Books,

PRUSSIANISIAL* BEFORE the outbreak of the present war, a constant theme of pacificists and their representative organs was that the friction which existed between Germany and......

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