24 DECEMBER 1921, page 15

Rustic Sunday.

BY the roadside The flowering plum-trees Are like village-girls Going to church on Sunday : And the flowering blackthorn-trees Are like white-headed pensioners, In twos and......

The Theatres

"SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER" AT THE COURT THEATRE. THERE are not many comedies more than one-hundred-and-fifty years old which the theatrical manager may fall back on to fill the......

Continental Travelling.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Srn,—One hears so much of robberies on Continental trains (not unknown on our own railways) that perhaps you will permit me to relate my own......

Unemployed Ex-service T11 N: A Suggestion To Farmers And...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—During the War many people " adopted . " a lonely soldier with whom they kept in touch, a kindly act which was.greatly appreciated:......

Poetry.

TO FELICE. NOTHING in love, not given, can be taken, Or, taken, is still less than nothing made ; And so much is love's credit therein shaken, That offers false are by false......

The Speed Of Pigeons.

fTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sra, — In an article, "Bird Life from the Train;" in the Spectator of September 3rd, the following passage occurs :— "Both wood-pigeons and......

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