28 AUGUST 1926, page 16

Poor Law Reform And The Children

[To the Editor of the SeEcT.vrott.] Su:,--The abuse of outdoor relief in certain districts is, I fear, obscuring other very important issues involved in - 1.11(: Poor Law reform......

The Italian Syndical Law

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspindent, " W.B.," in his letter published in your issue of the 21st inst., takes me to task in connexion with my article on the......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sir,—youf Article On "

Literary Coincidences " encourages me to draw to your attention the great similarity between Yeats' " When you are old " and Ronsard's sonnet. " Pour Helene," which begins "......

Mr. Harold Russell [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]...

and many of your readers will have been shocked by the news of the sudden death of Mr. Harold Russell, and will feel deep sympathy with those who are suffering most intimately......

Literary 'coincidences

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] STR,—Not so well known, but more remarkable than the coin- cidence between two lines of Tennyson's In Memoriam xxvii. and two lines of Clough's......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.1

SIR,— "To all the sensual world proclaim . . One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name."—Motto al head cf Chapter xxxiv. of " Old Mortality." • -......