20 APRIL 1912, Page 16

THE ICEBERG.

[To TIED EDITOR. OP TUN " SPECTATOli."_}

SI R, —I do not know whether you care to print the enclosed poem by Celia Thaxter, an American poetess, who is, I am afraid, little known on this side of the Atlantic. It was pub- lished more than thirty years ago in the Atlantic Monthly. I have copied it from the fifteenth edition of her poems (1887). It tells of a disaster less terrible, though more complete, than that which has befallen the ' Titanie.'—I am, Sir, &c., 96 Boundary Road, N. W. B. PAUL NEUMAN.