16 APRIL 1927, page 16

The Story Of A Little Poem [to The Editor Of

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-- In reply to several enquiries, may I say that the Italian title of the poem to which my recent article referred is " La Cavalla Stoma " ? Giovanni Pascoli......

Cynical Or Inspiring ?

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of April 2nd (p. 587) a certain writer speaks of " the significance of that wise French proverb that the best is the enemy......

Poetry

The Fairy Hill I xxovv a green hill Near till a road ; It's green with the shamrock That no man sowed ; For the Slices sowed the shamrock An' brought the black bee To make it......

Penny Postage [to The Editor Of The Srec.-rwron.] Sir, —i Am

afraid that, in the face of the present state of the nation's finances and in spite of the repetition by the Post- master-General of his slogan, " The Government hope to......

The Last Quartets [to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Srn,—mr.

Maine is shocked by my metaphors, as I intended him to be. On the one hand there is the critic, pontifical but vague, condemning with one sweep the later Quartets, as an......