19 AUGUST 1916, page 12

On Consulting The Dictionary.

[To sus Emron OF THE " SrEenTos."1 Bra,—Your ingenious correspondent "W. W." has started me on a new game which may become indirectly as profitable as the pig's quest for......

A Suggestion.

[TO THB EDITOR OR THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—In these days when so many homes are sorrowing for those who will never come back, I write to make a small suggestion which I have found......

Aristophanes. [to Mc Editor Op Tsr " Speotatoil1 Sir,—as I

was returning from some duty at the front, down the "East Gully" in Gallipoli to my dug-out at "Deckhouse Post," in July last year, with a very keen ear for the sighing of......

Books.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.* WHEN James Russell Lowell, in a patriotic threnody over the corpse of Abraham Lincoln, called him "the first American," it might at first sight appear that he......

Notice.—when "correspondence" Or Articles Are Signed With...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communi. catcd," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode......

Poetry.

IN TIME OF SLAUGHTER. WHEN I weekly knew An ancient pew, And murmured there The forms of prayer, And thanks, and praise, In the ancient ways, And heard read out During August......

"missing."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTITOR.1 Bia,—On the day you kindly published my letter asking for informa- tion about my son, 2nd Lieut. A. B. Marston, who was wounded and missing,......