26 APRIL 1924, page 17

Grow Your Own Food.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The wheel of our industrial fortunes has brought us down into the trough of unemployment again ; but we are continuing so long in it this......

"swans Sing Before They Die."

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—A few years ago I came across a Latin elegiac version of Coleridge's epigram :- "Swans sing before they die ; 'twere no bad thing Should......

Cruelty In Sport.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Surely the individuals who write to you denying there can be cruelty in sport because the same fish may be hooked on two occasions are much......

Poetry.

SPADE AND SWORD. WHAT lovely dark, blue flames, 0 Spade, Shine in thy steel so bright : See how the shadows smoke and play : How thou hast laboured, year by year, To reach this......

The Referendum.

[To the Editor of the SPEcraron.] SIR,—I have read with much interest your recent advocacy of the "Referendum" system, and as the principle has been in force in this Province......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

SIR,—The correspondence you kindly published on this subject has brought me another letter from a friend who tells me he found a dead redwing in his garden in Berkshire on March......

Late Migration Of Redwings.

[To the Editor of the SrEcrAroa.] SIR, —In your issue of April 12th there is a letter from Mr. W. M. Crook asking for the date when Redwings leave England, as he thinks that......

[erratum.—in Mr. Massingliam's Article Last Week On "the...

Common Prayer" the words " the nine impassioned Anglo-Catholics behind them " should have read " the more impassioned," etc.—En. Spectator.]......