26 OCTOBER 1901, page 15

Reinforcements P

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin, — A mouse was seen in our bedroom one evening. The most mobile and courageous inmates of the house were hastily summoned, armed with......

Poetry.

A VOICE FROM THE EAST. ENGLISHMEN, Englishmen, ye who are learning the tongues of my fathers, Dreaming that before long ye will learn their heart-secrets also, That with the......

The Concentration Camps In South Africa I To Tre Editor

OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Stn,—The latest statistics concerning the concentration camps in South Africa call for urgent heart-searching and inquiry. Baring September 2,411 persons,......

Books.

QUEEN VICTORIA IN "THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY."* To one who has watched the home and foreign politics of the country for more than fifty years, and has had some little......

Officers' Impedimenta.

pro Tirs EDITOR OP TM2 " $PECTATO11."1 Fx,—We have been hearing much a late—and no wonder— about the pianos and kitchen ranges which it appears have been allowed to form part of......