14 JUNE 1913, page 18

Poetry.

COTON FIELDS. (Verses for May - Week.) IN far and famous Turkestan, Where desert winds are swift and strong, There dwells a sad and broken man Who hides old sorrows in a song.......

Interesting Birds Near London.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondents at Hampstead and Sydenham have recorded observations of various birds that might hardly be counted upon so close to......

The Commons Preservation Society Fund.

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Art.

M. BUSSY'S PASTELS. THE strongly decorative qualities of pastel which in English practice of the last fifty years have been largely neglected for the intimate calligraphic......