23 AUGUST 1919, page 17

Books.

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.* PEOPLE with a taste for history may find consolation in the thought that the difficult times through which we are passing help us to understand the great......

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writer's name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are narked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or......

Hymns And Cricketers.

[To THZ EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Srs,—The references to " W. G." and the hymn sung in Marl- borough College Chapel on the Sunday after " W. G." had been bowled for three......

Poetry.

THE CENOTAPH LISTENING-POST. Us! foolish hearts of men! Take thought of us here! Es proud! This is no empty tomb set up for a heedless crowd. We are here, we wait for you, watch......

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We suggest that there can be no better Present in Peace or War than an Annual Subscription to the Spectator. He or she who gives the Spectator as a present will give a weekly......

Ta Me Gulls.

THE EDITOR Or TEE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—There are thousands of gulls in Wick, all of them more or less tame. I send you a photograph. They perform the same sort of service as the......

[to The Editor Op The " Spectator."] Sir,—i Have...

much interest your correspondents' descriptions of their mental images of the days of the week.' My own corresponding mental pictures are not connected with colours, but only......