Death-bed Utterances
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] see that the Spectator has started collecting death-bed utterances. This pursuit may yield rare and peculiar coin to the treasure-seeker. May I......
Poetry
Optima sive Pessima WHEN I fall through oceans under oceans Into deeps where never a greyness lingers ; Grope among the wrecks of old emotions, Clutched by coiling knots of......
Vivian
So deep you are, yet candid-eyed, Baby, you somehow seem like men Long passed to wisdom's other side, And come to innocence again. So artlessly your sweet words pour, Yet with......
The United States And The League Of Nations
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sur,—Your reference to President Wilson in the. Spectator of October 16th, to my mind, involves a faulty. analysis : — "When America declared......
" American English "
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] do not agree with Mr. St. John Ervine that the Ameri- can affirmative " Yah " is a corruption of the word " Yes," or with Mr. Ernest Law that......
The Public Health (smoke Abatement) Bill
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—The well-named but ill-nurtured measure purporting to reduce the murderous pall of smoke above the cities in which four-fifths of us live......
The Poor Clergy
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—For many years it has been the privilege of the Com- mittee of the Poor Clergy Relief Corporation to endeavour to minister to the special......