29 MAY 1909, page 18

"the Lesser Affections."

[To THR EDITOR OF THZ SPZOTATOR."] Sra,—In your article (Spectator, May 15th) under the above title on the Countess Martinengo Cesaresco's new book, "The Place of Animals in......

The Late Me. Thomas Coutts.

(TO TOR EDITOR Or TIIIE " HPICOTAT011n SIR, — Will you allow me to invite any one who may possess letters or papers connected with my groat-grandfather, Thomas Coutts, to be......

Poetry.

GEORGE MEREDITH. (Died May 18th, 1909.) ROSSII3TTI sleeps beside:the restless wave, And Swinburne by the surges of the sea; Should not God's acre in green Surrey be For the......

Books.

THE AWAKENING OF TURKEY.* Ma. KNIGHT'S book (apparently named after the Turkish patriotic play) contains, we believe, the most detailed account of the Turkish Revolution which......

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