7 AUGUST 1915, page 17

Poetry.

THE ONLY SON, WHO'LL love and comfort you, mother of mine, Should I never return and be killed in the war P If you've died like a man as your father before Then you'll live in.......

The Central Association Of Volunteer Training Corps. .

PRESIDENT LORD DESBOROUGH. How. SECRETARY : PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. HEAD OFFICES: Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). .11•■■••■•■1 The aims and......

Grandiose Vocabulary.

rTo THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin, — What think you of the following from the Nineteenth Century for July, p. 169, where the writer speaks of " the pre- ventive of......

Books.

VENICE.* THE entrance of Italy into the Great War makes specially appropriate the publication of a new and revised edition of Hazlitt's Venetian ,Republic. The late Mr. William......

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