POINTS FROM LETTERS PERFORMANCES IN HYDE PARK.
The League of Arts has received permission from H.M. Office of Worksfor a- series of entertainments, folk songsand dancing and "a woodland opera," to be .given in the natural amphitheatre north of the Serpentine, near the boat houses. These performances .".df dance and. Mime will be given_ 3,p.m, and 7 p.m, gac.h Saturday in. J,une and on jitly 6th and 13th. There is no charge for admission. The League. relies upon the generosity Of the audience in-pin:chasing the 2s. prograitimeS to cover expenses,- which average 150 per Saturday.. Particulars may be obtained from- the Secretary,-
- League of Arts; 12 Berwick Street, S.W1..
IN BLUNDERLAND. -
I cannot decide whether or not the following reply in an examination was the result of " head " work I had asked for a short sketch of the life. of Ahab.._ Answer Ahab died." I think the girl must have passed in mental review a sort of blank outline of a king's career and found no 'fact to insert of which she felt quite sure, until she reached the end. And then there was no more to be said ! At any rate, she was a more promising pupil than the girl who, having heard in class that Abraham was a Bedouin Sheikh, solemnly wrote down the amazing statement that "Abraham was a bellowing sheep" !—E. OAKESHOTT, Biggleswade, Beds.
SEA BIRDS AND OIL.
This society is continually receiving reports. from all parts of the coast of sea birds-being covered with oil. The birds, being unable to fly, cannot find food and, therefore, are doomed to -lingering and painful death unless kind-hearted- .people come to their rescue. This unhappy state of things will continue until there is a law compelling owners of oil- driven ships to fit them with machinery for preventing waste oil being discharged into the sea ; a Bill with this object has already been presented in Parliament on behalf of this society. Meanwhile, may I appeal to anyone who sees a bird covered with oil to catch it, clean it, and liberate it ? If the bird is beyond help it should be killed painlessly at once.—E. FAIRHOLME, Captain; Chief Secretary, -Royal Society for the-Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 105 Jermyn Street, London, &W. I..
- PRECIOUS BANE.
With regard to the name chosen by Mrs. Webb for her masterpiece, the lines from Paradise Lost were on the title of the first' edition, 1924 (though incorrectly quoted). It is much to be regretted that the Traveller's Library edition has omitted Milton's words, as they contain the clue to the whole story.—E. A. Guasuris, Ilatchetts, Nonington, Dover.
_ . THE* PASSING. HOUR. '
Wandering. about an, old monastery garden -near here I came on a, sundial round -which was the following curious inscription ; " L'heure qui passe nous blesse celle de lit fin nous, tue." Compared With others—Latin and old English many of whieh• are commonplace—this one stands out -alone and not only commands attentionbut makes one- and think !—Enhilmno TREVELYAN, Nice.... : - • "' HOMER OR HORACE ? • - `-* • "C. Et:" may- find- " interdum dormitat Homerus." Marshall's Introduction in The Complete Works of Horace'. Wishing to save space I preferred this to the longer et idem, indignor quandOgue bonus dormitat Homerus " in Am Poetica.—F. K. FELL, Holy Trinity Vicarage, Whitehaven.
• * * * • • * The Rev. H. H. Creal, of- St. Peter's Rectory, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, wishes to thank the generous reader who posts him a copy of the Spectator weekly. He asks that this new address may be noted.
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