14 MARCH 1914, page 13

Virgil's Beasts, Birds, And Bees.

MENNYSON, who understood and loved the same things as Virgil, has written of him with deeper feeling than any other English poet :— " Thou that singest wheat and woodland, filth......

Pulpit And Pew.

MILE ordinary layman of the Church of England does not -i_ necessarily expect to agree intellectually with his clergy- man. He may or may not do so. He does not much mind......