7 JUNE 1913, page 18

Poetry.

THE RIVER DOVE. "0 my beloved Nymph! fair Dove, Princess of rivers."—Charles Cotton, I SHALL not hear, 0 flood of my delight, The voice of all thy meadows in the spring, Or note......

Books,

THE wonderful political brotherhood of Bright and Cobden began in the latter being asked to speak at an education meeting at Rochdale. The foundation of the alliance between......

The Commons Preservation Society Fund.

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