13 JULY 1912, page 18

[to The Editor Ot Ten " Strctator." J It Not

a curious fact that in all the instances cited in the correspondence on this subject there is not one case of a woman calling in her last hours to her mother P—I am, Sir, V. N.......

"mother ! Mother.!"

[To THE EDITOR Of TII2 " SPECTATOR:1 SIE,••••an connexion with the letters which appeared in the Spectator lately on this subject may I send an old Egyptian proverb ?—" God......

Books

LADY SHELLEY'S DIARY.* THE patient reader who loves the nooks and crannies of the past wades through the memoirs which most publishers to-day think it their duty to resurrect......

Misuse Of The' Word "convincing." [to Ter.enisos Os Thu...

Stn,—In reply to your correspondent " G. G. R." (Spectator, June 29th) re the word*" convincing," I am writing to ask why people cannot let the English language—like everything......

Poetry.

ON THE NEW ROAD. WHEN you have started forth towards your vision, When you have counted up the gain and cost, When you have faced the old, old world's derision, Its scoffing......

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