28 JUNE 1935, page 19

Two Poems

Dance-Band Swim with the stream ! Sleep as you swim ! Let the wave take you ! - - However loud they play, my saxophones will never wake you, For they are in your dream. and you......

Cruelty To Caged Birds • [to . The . Editor Of The

SPECTATOR, • SIR,—Two years ago I saw a whole large railway-wagon on the quay at Dakar, Senegal, filled with crowded cages of small birds .awaiting shipment. Their number I......

Age Do Men Grow Wholly Old ; Unknowing, Tire Of

living ; Grow deaf as pulse grows faint ; Dream and'in dreims depart ? Or do they wake; feel cold And hear—a salt sea grieving Iii landlocked, long complaint— The......

The Free Churches' Convention [to The Editor Of The...

decision of the organizers of the Peace and Unem- ployment ,Convention, sponsored by Mr. Lloyd George and Free Church leaders to hold the Convention on July 1st and 2nd—dates -......

Sir Walter Ralegh , • - [to The Editor Of

THE SPECTATOR.] " — - - Sini—Dr.Harlow writes :, " Mr. Thompson's indignant reftisOl in his book to accept the idea that Ralegh, when hard pressed, was given to prevarication......

A Conference At Oxford [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

SIR, — The All Peoples' Association (APA), 9 Arlington Street, S.W. 1, will hold a Conference on international affairs at the Union, Oxford, from July 31st to August 6th. Sir......