29 JANUARY 1927, page 17

Poetry

The English Cottage O SWEET small house in the valley woodland planted, Native as acorn cupped, thatched grey as mouse, Snowdrop and robin haunted -- There is none like you,......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sir,-i Began To Learn

lip-reading before I went deaf twenty eight years ago. I could always read my mother as she spoke slowly and naturally and did not make faces. One gets rather fascinated with......

Easter Island Statues

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] am glad to know Miss Rout's authority for her remark- able statement that obsidian implements and the Easter Island statues were fashioned......

The Letters Of George Gissing

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, --I do not quite see the force of Mr. J. St. Loc Strachey's criticism in the Spectator of the letters of George Gissing. Gissing evidently......

How To Make Farming Pay

ITo the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S91,—Having been engaged for the last forty years in the difficult task of making fanning pay, as an owner-occupier, I have read with great......