5 JULY 1913, page 27

The Fresh Air Fund.

[To THE EDIT011 07 SHE "SPECTATOR...] you kindly permit use to remind your readers of a duty and a pleasure which I feel sure they would be sorry to forego F Many hundreds of......

Poetry.,

1ND rA. GREEN, green birds 'gainst a blue, blue sky, The scream of the parrots as past they fly, The golden shimmer of hot, hot air, And an arid plain 'neath the sun's fierce......

Interesting Birds Near London.

[To TRZ EDITOR Or THE ..evreureE."] STR,—Your correspondent, "E. H. S. S.," who records the appearance of a heron at Mitcham, will have plenty of oppor- tunities of seeing the......

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

The Commons Preservation Society Fund.

[Cheques should be addressed to the Speciater,1 Wellington Street, &rand, London, W.-C., and made payable to the Spectator and crossed " Barclay and Co., Gosling's Branch;......