27 FEBRUARY 1926, page 20

Voluntary Contributions For The State

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your issue of August 8th last has just reached this far distant outpost of Empire, and we have noted with much interest Mr. Edward......

A Famous Rowing Coach

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The memory of a " Colliery Director " has led him astray. The coach of the Cambridge eight when a professional trainer was allowed was......

Homecrofting In India [to The Editor Of The Spectator.)...

send you a copy of a letter from Rabindranath Tagore in which he advocates Homecrofting„ using the very term the Spectator is using. There is no doubt that Homecrofting is the......

Extracts From -letters General .pangalos.

PHILHELLENE writes : " I cannot let the note on General Pangalos, in your issue of January 9th, pass without comment. Following apparently an erroneous telegram on the subject,......

Poetry

THE TREES THAT DIED IN THE WAR To G.H.G. $o gentle they, yet glorious, Living their lives unseen ; Treading the soil,. victorious,. Brave gods with banners green. They asked for......