21 APRIL 1906, page 17

The "spectator" Experimental Company.

[To TUB EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR." J Srn,—Your readers will be glad to hear that our progress continues to be most encouraging. I do not pretend that we are still advancing " by......

A Soldiers' Institute For Cawnpore. [to The Editor Op Tiic

SPECTATOR.") Sm,—The difference that a well-worked soldiers' institute makes in the life of a soldier has been truly described by an officer to amount not merely to a clainge,......

Music.

ANTOINETTE STERLING. .1usr as in the domain of letters there have been certain writers who have appealed with a special force to the members of their own calling—Gray,......

Poetry.

THE FLOWER-GATHERERS. I LEFT behind the ways of care, The crowded hurrying hours, I breathed again the woodland air, I plucked the woodland flowers : Bluebells as yet but half......