7 AUGUST 1909, page 17

School Cricket.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPRC rAro rt."1 SIR,—A foreigner travelling in England said that he was especially struck by the fact that Englishmen of the upper classes, in addition......

[to The Editor Of The "spectator. "] Bir,—the Gentleman...

to your paper under the name of "An Outsider" (Spectator, July 24th) seems to have drawn his impressions of school cricket from a poor source. I know the system on which several......

Books.

SAILING SHIPS.* MR. CHATTERTON has the right temper and inclinations for writing a book of this sort, and we congratulate him on the successful conclusion of his diligent—we......

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Poetry.

MARTELLO NO. I. (log.) Tully built me round, and they built me thick, With a skin of stone and a heart of brick, And they circled me with a yawning ditch, And topped my roof......