2 FEBRUARY 1901, page 16

Poetry.

A QUEEN is being buried; The greatest Queen of earth— Great in all queenly wisdom, Great in all Christian worth. Her bier is a gun-carriage, Her pall it is of white : Life pure......

Books.

THE SOLDIER IN LITERATURE.* Frrotrorr has ere this sounded the clarion and filled the fife to good purpose, but he has never done better work than in rescuing from oblivion the......

[to The Editor Oa The "spectator."]

Sin,—I hope you will allow me emphatically to contradict the statement of your correspondent, Mr. H. R. Grenfell, that Lady Aldborough " went into every house in Paris wheie......