31 MAY 1902, page 18

Germany As "agent-provocateur."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J you kindly permit me, the son of a German, to de- precate your severe criticisms of German policy in the Spectator of May 24th? You say......

Poetry.

CASTLES IN THE AIR. ["If you want to know what a man is, examine his castles in the air."— Spectator, May 17th, 1902.] WHERE is my castle in the air, My true self's home and......

Books.

TWO IRISH SIBYLS.* She said, ' God knows they owe me nought, I tossed them to the foaming sea, I tossed them to the howling waste, Yet still their love comes back to me.'" "......