Extracts From Letters.
REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS. MR. MARK B. F. MAJOR writes :—If it were found—as I am satisfied it would be—that the receipt of reparations would in the main be harmful to us, it......
Poetry.
AN OLD LADY READING. EARTH iS predominant, clay vessel emptied, Hollow and void of all but memories, Gone—gone—the eternal soul of laughter, The loveliness, the hopefulness, the......
The Late Migration Of Redwings.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The publication of letters on the above has brought me communications on the same subject—one from a correspon- dent in Co. Cork, who......
" Swans Sing Before They Die."
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Your correspondent will find the Latin version of " Swans sing before they die " in Arundines Cami, page 323 (5th edition), under the......
The General Thanksgiving. [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]
SIR,—" Irishman " wonders that the General Thanksgiving is said in churches by the clergyman only. May I remind him that this, and many other Prayer-book anomalies, are going to......
From A Window.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—One of the many attractions of Hythe is the number of birds one sees almost everywhere. On Thursday, April 17th, I was looking through......