21 SEPTEMBER 1907, page 15

Old-age Pensions.

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In the Spectator of August 31st Mr. Burgess asks the amount of the pension which can be secured by a payment of a penny a week during......

Poe Try.

UPON A WESTERN BEACH. Is it love ? is it hate ? this clasp by the sea of the land, Entangling, swaying, revolving, escaping by to the strand, Escaping, yet never escaped, never......

The Advance Of Socialism.—" Obsta Prin Cipiis."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra, — I am an old man, and have seen strange things in my time, but never one more strange or startling than the rapid, silent advance of "......

Music.

THE GLOUCESTER FESTIVAL. THE programmes of the provincial Festivals are always of the nature of a compromise between the claims of those who hear too little and those who hear......

The Waste Of Daylight.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "EPECTATOR."] SIR, — Mr. Frost in the Spectator of September 7th describes my proposal as a dream. It may appear so, but it, or some adaptation of it, is......