21 SEPTEMBER 1918, page 14

[to The Editor Of The " Spectatcyr."1

SER,—In a divinity examination at Oxford, the passage was set from the Gospel of St. John viii. 44: " 671 lfree'CrInS /arts sal 6 varitp adroD. Nine candidates for Honour Mods......

Books.

PRESIDENT WILSON'S FOREIGN POLICY.. ADDRESSING the Graduating Class at West Point in June, 1916, President Wilson observed : "We love that quiet, self-respecting, unconquerable......

[to The Editor 07 Tb!" Spectator."1 Sir,—it May Interest...

correspondents to know that a pair of swans here hatched out nine cygnets this year. They are all still living. The proud father has certainly had no opportunity of bagging any......

Wanted An Author.

[Torn EDITOR OF THE" SPECTATOR."] SIR,—An English writer, who may have been Burke or Dyer, describes three beautiful Welsh rivers. The Clwyd and another, which I have forgotten,......

A Proud Swan.

[To THE EDITOR or rem " SPECTATOR."] Fefer0/101) to the correspondence in the Spectator on of the usual nvinher of a swan's brood, it may be Sia,—With the subject a interest to......

Poetry.

WHEN PEACE COMES. WOULD we have peace? That would we all t As parched men dying for the stream. The nations boil on, stumble, fall, Yearning to that great dream. Yet if,......

"bowlers."

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOE."3 BIR,—In a mathematical examination I once asked the boys to define the word " prism." One boy answered : "A prism is a kind of sphinx," and......

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or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not netessarily be held to be in agree- ment with the views therein expressed or with the mode......