19 OCTOBER 1934, page 18

A Physical Fitness Crusade

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was much interested in reading Doctor Griffin's article on Physical Fitness in your last issue. In it he mentions the work done by the......

Conservatives And Slum Property

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your paragraph on " Conservatives and Slum Pro- perties " seems to ignore certain defects in the working of the new Act which arc......

Edward Gibbon

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am about to begin work on a biography of Gibb o n. Since the publication of my edition of his journals in 1929 an amount of new material......

Two Poems

A Parnellite at Parnell's Funeral UNDER the Great Comedian's tomb the crowd ; A bundle of tempestuous cloud is blown About the sky, where that is clear of cloud Brightness......