20 JULY 1918, page 13

Rome And Great Britain.

[To THE EDITOR OF vs " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Your correspondent " Australian " need hardly have asked the question " whether the Vatican is more political than religious, more......

Poetry.

IMPERMANENCE. THESE lovely things I saw in flower, White-veiled and tall the woodland cherry trees, For carpet at their feet anemones, All lovely for an hour. This gladsome......

Children's Prayers.

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."3 SIR,—In answer to a request in your paper for some simple verses for a child's first prayers, I quote the following, which I used more than......

Books.

MR. ASQUITH ON THE VICTORIAN AGE.• THE terms of the Trust under which the Romances Lecture is delivered have to some extent simplified the task which Mr. Asquith undertook in......

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