17 AUGUST 1918, page 13

Sir Joseph Hooker.*

THE late Sir Joseph Hooker was a miracle of industry and achieve- ment. He lived to be ninety-four, and was busy with his pen in the year of his death. The catalogue of his......

Poetry.

COMFORT. Now she need dread no more to greet Too old for him; she need not know The bitterness when he who was All hers turns to some younger face; And she his mother stands......

Books.

THE FAR EAST UN. VEILED.* THE Japanese Government has been a loyal and helpful Ally from the beginning of the war. The Japanese Navy rendered invaluable aid in clearing the......

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