25 MAY 1918, page 12

Books.

THE ARAB OF MESOPOTAMIA.* A VERY able and informing little book, which comes to us from the Government Press at Beare, gives in ten anonymous essays the best account that we......

Notice.—when " Correspondence" Or Articles Are Signed...

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

Poetry.

TRINITY SUNDAY. Is the year that King Uzziah died, (The years come in, the years go out) When daylight drew to eventide And darkness filled the ways with doubt, I heard ten......

" Tommy " As A Leader Of Men. (to The

EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") STS,—I was much interested in an article by " 0. W. M." on " ' Tommy' as a Leader of Men " in your issue of February 16th. In it the writer......

[to The Editor Of The " Spectator."] Ftr,—i Once Saw

this notice in a railway carriage in Lombardy : " It is defended to throw jugs out of the window." A friend of mine found an electric bell in an hotel in Venice which had......

" Howlers."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] FIR, — In case you may be still open to the publication of schoolboy " howlers," I send you a few I came across many years ago.—I am, Hors......