20 NOVEMBER 1909, page 34

Poetry.

SONG OF THE GUNS AT SEA. 0 HEAR ! 0 hear I Across the sullen tide, Across the echoing dome horizon-wide, What pulse of fear Beats with tremendous boom P What call of instant......

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Books.

A POISONOUS l300K.* IT has long been the rule of the Spectator to avoid giving the advertisement of scandal to any book, and especially to any novel, which appears to us to be......

Cruelty To Oxen At Carrara. [to Ths Editor Op The

"SPECTATOR."] who have visited the beautiful valleys of Carrara must have been horrified at the cruelty practised on the oxen which draw the carts laden with marble from the......

Slave-grown Cocoa.

WE have received the following contributions in answer to the appeal of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society, on behalf of the deputation to the - United States......