16 AUGUST 1913, page 16

The " Snowball " Prayer.

[To TRE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—A prayer on the " snowball " system continues to be sent to all and sundry. It was recently noticed in your columns, and I received a......

Books.

JOHN WILLIS CLARK.* To write the life of a great man with a strong personality is the easiest task which a biographer can face. Even the discussion of great men without strongly......

Poetry.

THE GUIDE-BOOK. COME forth, and brave our Northern sky, Old comrade of the travelled ways, For 'twixt your battered covers lie, On pages scored with note and phrase, The......

The Cottage Problem.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] am not writing because I have any theories to pro- pound on cottage-building, but to give an idea, if it should interest you, of the style of......

Brevity.

[To vu EDITOR Or Tn. " spEcTATorol SIR,—The late Bishop Therold was a master of the art of brevity in letter-writing. He always, at any rate until the closing years of his life,......

Kotice.—when "correspondence" Or Articles Are Sir,necl...

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

The Commons Preservation Society Fund. We Have Received...

donations to the above Fund :— E. A. Cooper ... Henry D. Ashton Sidney A. Ashton Wm. Ashton ... • .11 4.0 X s. d. 3 3 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0......