16 MAY 1914, page 10

Argument In Verse.

I N his singularly interesting address to the English Asso- ciation on Friday week Mr. Balfour discussed the value of poetry as a vehicle of argument or controversy. It is not......

The Prime Of Life.

T "" prime of life" is one of those elastic terms which literature does not help us to make definite. Swift spoke of a man of twenty-eight as already past his prime. George......

The " Dead Hand" Of 'flit State.

Times is to be congratulated on the series of JL articles it is now publishing upon the manner in which the " dead hand' of the State has arrested the development of the......