18 NOVEMBER 1922, Page 15

FROM THE JAPANESE.

OLD AGE.

ExPEcr, when night falls, to have my house full of visitors ; The ghosts of past days, foul and fair.

And I am prepared to salute all alike, courteously, ,To thank some of them, that they are now but shadows, And the others, that they were once alive.

G. M. HORT.