9 AUGUST 1919, page 16

The National Anthem.

• [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sun,—My authority for stating that Longfellow wrote the beautiful additional verse for our National Anthem is Mr. Theodore P.......

Mark Twain And Browning.

[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sis,—Does it really matter whether or not Mark Twain was aware of the Johnson story (Boswell, Temple Edition, Vol. IV., a. 37) to which Mr.......

Adoption: National And International.

• [To 'ME EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The appeal which Miss Josephine Plows-Day makes in your issue of July 26th hardly discloses the fact to an eminitiated reader that the......

[to The Editor Of The "spectator."] Sir,—it May Interest The

readers of the Spectator to hear that an Act for the adoption of children has been in force in New Zealand for more than thirty years, and has been very beneficial to the......

Weekdays.

[To THE EDITOR OF l'HE " SPE - CV-TOR."] S111,-1 have just read your article on "Weekdays" and your correspondent's singular conception of the same with great interest.......

Bell-ringing.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent should purchase a copy of ChangeRinging Disentangled: with Hints on the Direction of Belfries, on the Management of......

Poetry.

NIGHT. -ANOTHER clay has ended and again The fading emeralds of the quiet west Grow dusky o'er the hill-top and the plain, Dying along each drowsy vale and crest, Where Earth......

Tlig *pert Afar

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