5 MAY 1933, page 14

Poetry

Forests TURN, now, tired mind unto your rest, Within your secret camber lie, Doors shut, and windows curtained, lest Footfall or moonbeam, stealing by, Wake you, or night-wind......

The Theatre

" When Ladies Meet." By Rachel Crothers. At the Lyric Theatre IT is a solemn and (I believe) a significant thought that if there were no love there would be no mothers-in-law.......

A Hundred Years Ago

" THE SPEOTATOR," MAY 4TH, 1833. FINANCIAL STATE or THE COUNTRY.—The Reformed House of Commons has again been dragged through the mire. In obedience to the Ministerial mandate,......

Art

The Royal Academy MANY people unreflectingly use the word academic as a term of general abuse, as the Communist uses bourgeois. But if they were pinned down to a more careful......