30 JULY 1932, page 10

To A Sky-writer

THEY have reported that mean streets will be ennobled by The praise of soap and beer and pills, now to be thrown o high. Our meanest streets shall be henceforth no meaner th......

Poetry

The Wych-elm IN weariness of heart, Bitter with false labour, I put the world apart And seek an old neighbour. A century or more He has mused and murmured Over my door Of what......

The Kiss

WE do not love : this kiss of ours Is but a careless, chance embrace— As though two individual flowers, Near neighbours in an upland place, Should by some infant tempest find......

Art

A Topical Motley of Graphic Art IN this age of ours, in which the wheels of the life-machine turn with ever-increasing speed, we get tired of things far more rapidly than our......

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