30 MARCH 1929, page 12

A Hundred Years Ago We Have A Tale Of Misery

to tell which we are sure will awak e universal commiseration from one end of the country to the other. We have, only yesterday, penetrated the back lanes of Bethnal. green, and......

Poetry

The Empty Swing BY clear of moon on winter nights The child-swing in the paddock green Beside the farm of lonely lights Moves idly, pushed by hands unseen— Up and down, to and......

Prize-fighting.

One of these brutal exhibitions took place last week, near East Barnett, between two fellows named. Doyle and Macginnis, for 56. They fought twenty rounds, when the latter......

Lay Dorross.

The writer of Simplicity, we are pretty well convinced, is of the male gender, and his work bears evident marks of age. It is very clear to be seen that the Old Gentleman is a......

Correspondence

A LETTER FROM Lim A. f To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, — The regally-republican retinue of journalists and photographers and secretaries and secret-service agents who......