4 JUNE 1921, page 13

Napoleon On Dante. [to The Editor Or The "spectator.")

Sta,—In turning over the pages of a little collection of the Maximes et Pensees of Napoleon I happened upon an appre- ciation of Dante, and as these two names are in the......

Some Labour Arguments.

[To THE EDITOR OF THJE " SPECTATOR."I Sts,—The White Paper recently published on Bolshevism says : "We doubt whether so much human misery as has existed in Russia during the......

[to The Editor Of The " Spectator.")

Sin,—The inscription on the memorial to the twenty members of the staff of the Birmingham Post and Birmingham Mail is as follows:— " A city's strength is not in her walls nor in......

The Anglo-japanese Alliance.—an Australian's View.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") STRi—Permit me to state from the onset that I hold no brief for Japan, but if this country desires to cut its own throat, then let it by all......

An Inscription For A War Memorial. [to The Editor Of

THE "SPECTATOR") Sta,—May I ask whether it would not be possible to adapt to .a cenotaph that moist superb of all epitaphs which has been rendered in English thus :— "Tell......

(to The Editor Of The " Spectator.") Sie,—the Following...

"True love by life, true love by death is tried; Live thou for England! We for England died," quoted on May 21st by one of your correspondents as being by an unknown author,......

[to The Editor Of The " Spectator.")

Srs,—Inscriptions for a War Memorial. The following are fine ones :— " 1 r How went the day? they S. Went the day well? died and never knew; But well or ill, England they died......