15 MARCH 1913, Page 19

GOLDSMITH UP TO DATE.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.']

Six,—I submit a new version of Goldsmith's lines on woman:— "WHEN LOVELY WOMAN." (With apologies to'the shade of Oliver Goldsmith.)

"When lovely woman stoops to fighting,

And finds—too late—that blows won't pay)

What methods can be hers, for righting The wrongs she suffers day by day?

One only thing might we advise her;

To be herself, and trust her fate;

To grow more womanly and wiser ; And—surely not in vain—to wait."