13 MARCH 1909, page 16

Poetry.

IN passionate dead days that were Your loyal lovers pledged you deep: Royally kind and warmly fair, By tavern fire, on castled steep Where worms of desolation creep— You were......

A Correction.

[To Tax EDITOR OF Till "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In your issue of the 6th inst., on p. 362, you state in the paragraph referring to the recent trial of Dinuzulu that Sir W. J. Smith,......

Books.

ELIZABETHANS OLD AND NEW.* "WE have disoovered an unknown poem," was Rossetti's exclamation to Mr. Watts-Dunton, " more Shakespearean than anything else out of Shakespeare." The......

Notice.—when Articles Or "correspondence" Are Signed With...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of......

Mr. Gibson. Bowles And The Irish Vote.

r.r. TRH EDITOR or TIl " SPROTATOR."1 SIR,—A thoughtful friend having sent me the Spectator of March 6th, I find that you therein charge me with "change of front on the question......

Children In Latin Poetry.

• [To TIER EDITOR or TUN " SPROTATOR." . ] • SIR, — The writer of the article in the Spectator of February 27th has hardly been happy in his selection from Lucretius. Many much......

The Kitchen Middens Of The Modern Savage.

[To ?RR EDITOR or TUN "SPE0TATOR.1 Sin,—The part which you have always taken in preserving the beauties of wild England encourages me to hope that you may lend your influence to......