24 JANUARY 1920, page 17

Village Economics In Madras.• India Is A Poor Country. The

statement is frequently made, and can hardly be denied. But what do we mean when we say that India is a poor country ? A comparison is implied, and we rarely ask ourselves with......

Recent Poetry.* " Short Is The Date, Alas ! Of

modern rhymes ; And 'tis but just to let them live betimes." rOPE'S jeering jingle suggested itself irresistibly to our mind when we first looked upon the array of volumes that......