30 SEPTEMBER 1911, page 16

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or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of......

Poetry.

A song and a laugh and a shining blade. The hermit who hears me forgets to pray, The sunburnt peasant throws down his spade, The merchant of spices grows tired of trade, When I......

[to Ten Editor Op Tim " Spectator. "] Sir, — A Farmer's Wife

in this neighbourhood (Warwickshire) is in the habit of receiving parcels of broken chocolate from the manufacturers for the chickens. One day lately, the chickens having eaten,......

Books.

MONTAIGNE.* " Cut icy un livre de bonne fay, lecteur"—ench are the first words of Montaigne's Preface to his Essays, and they exactly hit the mark. No one ever wrote about......