21 JANUARY 1905, page 11

"the Hungry Forties."

SIE,—Mr. J. W. Gordon in last week's Spectator seems utterly to misconceive the object of my reference to France in my letter which appeared in your issue of January 7th. I had......

D Emo's Land Sits And Keeps The Gates Of The West,

and the wind, frozen on the Arctic wave, comes blowing over the shoulder of the world. Its puny Northern villages lie huddled in morass and bog; and all of the outside world it......