27 MAY 1922, page 14

"bone-dry."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The Spectator of May 6th, in its review of Professor Brander Matthews's Essays on English, seems to attribute the phrase " bonesiry "......

"the Raven In 1 West."

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPEarAros."3 612,—May I express pleasure in your recent article on " The Raven in the. West "P Mr. Baring Gould is correct in saying that such birds, or......

League 01? Arts Hyde Park Performances. [to The Editor Of

THE " SPECrATOR."1 SIR,—The League of Arts gave the first regular series of open-air entertainments in Hyde Park last year. The experiment is to be repeated every Saturday this......

Bookham Common.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Probably not many of your readers realize the great destruction of trees which is going on in all parts of the country. The necessities......

The Need Of Books In German Universities. [to Ma Editor

OF THE " SPECTATOR."] of us who are in touch with teachers in German universities are aware of the difficulties they are now suffering through their inability to buy English......

Poetry.

IN THEIR GLAD PLAYING TIME. Ls their glad playing time, like vrindflovvers down the billowy • April blowing, The children run where the grass grows deep. Bewitched in the dream......

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