27 MARCH 1926, page 16

Poetry

FICTION OLD ANI) NE VQr I mourn the dead disparaged days (Victorian that I am), When Fiction found us saints to praise, And villains dark to damn. For now the hero sins so deep,......

An Angler's Paradis E [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

Sru,—Excuse a belated reply to the letter of Mr. Philip T. Kenway published early iri November, to my article on freshwater fishing in New Zealand. The long course of mails......

Extract From Letter Prohibition And Crime In India.

Mr. G. Pugh, Hamerton House, 23 Kahun Road, Poona, writes : " The result of the introduction of some step towards Prohibition is the same all over the world. The Finance Member,......

A Word For Interleaved Advertisements [to The Editor Of The

SPECTATOR.] • have read you for many and many a year. You are quite right to mix the advertisements with the " matter.' I've often thought of letting you know that I admired you......

The Magdalen Bospital, Streatham [to The Editor Of The...

Sm,—Lovers of Dickens will find in Nichola3 Nickleby (chapter XX.) a reference to the Magdalen Hospital. Poor Mrs. Nickleby in her troubles mentions it, in What Dickens calls "......

Tips [to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sir,—i Have Read

with appreciation the article on " Tips," by " One of the New Poor," in the Spectator of March 20th, and although I have no exact knowledge of postmen's wages and policemen's......