25 FEBRUARY 1928, page 18

" Summings Up 't [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

SIR,-The epitaph recorded by your . correspondent E. M. Smith reminds one of the still more romantic story told on a tablet in the old Church of Si. Mary's, Truro, now Truro •......

The Adventure Of Dying

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was deeply interested in W. C. Edgar's article in the Spectator on his experience in the " great adventure," and would like to say that......

Poetry

Rumour SOMEBODY is whispering on the stair.... What What are those words half spoken, half drawn back ? What are those muffled words, some red, some black ? Who is whispering ?......

[to- The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sir,—i Believe That The

_following verse on a brass in Chester. field Parish Church, in memory of an aged townsman who died about the year 1700,. has never been printed :— " 0-Poora house of clay how......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.1 Sm,—the Various...

". The Rag-andBone Man's Epitaph " are very interesting. If I am not mistaken, however, the original and probably true version appeared in the Spectator about forty years ago,......

The Traffic_ In Girls

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sni,—The writer of your very interesting review of my book, Human Merchandise, touches on two not unimportant points on which I may perhaps say......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator. ]

Sin,—Do you know the following ?, - " Here lies my. Wife, Here.let her lie— She is at peace, And so am I."......

Where Nestlings Flourish [to The Editor Of The...

your page on " Country Life," . on November 12th, 1927, which has lately reached me, there is a paragraph headed " Where Nestlings Flourish," on the application of insect powder......