2 DECEMBER 1938, page 13

Song For A Feast Of Remembrance

IN ancient Egypt the kindred and friends of a dead man met periodically at his grave for a feast of remembrance. One of the songs sung on such occasions has been preserved for......

A Hundred Years Ago I" The Spectator," December Ist, 1838]

The Reverend Francis Dawson is a Prebendary of Canterbury, Rector of Allhallows, Rector of Chiselhurst, Rector of Hayes, Rector of Orpington, and he also derives an " honest......

What Is Poetry

By WILLIAM GERHARDI IN a preface to The Oxford Book of Light Verse Mr. W. H. Auden expatiates on what is light verse. Mr. Auden explains that when society and the poet are......