27 DECEMBER 1913, page 15

The Value Of Thatched Roofs.

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—Farmers, landowners, and all who love the country must feel an interest in this subject; and a copy of the little pamphlet recently......

Books.

THE YOUNG DISRAELI.* Mn, GEORGE TREVELYAN, in a recent interesting essay on the writing of history, says that the first and principal duty of an historian is to compile an......

The American Worker's House.

[To TIER EDITOR Or TUB " SPECTATOR...1 SIR, — Since you are thinking of combustible houses, do allow me to mention the American labourer's house, which he builds, not as kind......

"tom Brown's School Days."

[To TIM EDITOR OT THE "SPECTATOR."] SI31, — In view of the fact that your generous notice last week of my edition of Tom, Brown's School Days makes no reference to the......

Poetry.

HOSPITALITY. Accipite hospitium, neve ignorate Latinos Gentem Saturni, non vinclo aut legibus aequam, Spout° sua, veterisque Dot se more gerentem. —zloneid, VII., 202-205.......

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