26 JULY 1919, page 15

Weekdays.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] " Sia,—The letter of "H. V. H. B." about the colours of weekdays interests me, as I have never before heard of any one who shared this......

Poetry.

TIINO2 "AiIINOZ FOR me no dead of night, For me no night of sleep. The dark is full of spectral light And wakefulness—how deep ! Al! who would watch with me? I close mine eyes......

A Tame Herring Gull.

[To TEl EDITOR 07 THE " Specrrroa."] SIR,—'Six or seven years ago I was staying with a cousin " M." on the South Coast of Ireland near the Seven Heads in the month of August. I......

Rare Birds.

[To THE ED/TOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—Last year a pair of red-breasted flycatchers nested and reared a brood here. The meadow bunting also nested in this neighbourhood.......

Books.

FIELDS OF VICTORY.* TEE war was won by the co-operation of all the Allies by land and sea. Yet, just as the British Navy was the solid core of the Allied naval forces, so the......

Gilt *pert Afar We Suggest That There Can Be No

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Author Found.

" It were not hard, we think, to serve Him, If we could only see! "- quoted in the Spectator of July 5th, do not occur in "The Disciples" (Mrs. Hamilton King), as suggested by......

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