THE present generation is very far in spirit from the Augustan Age with its classical felicities, though indeed there are signs of a reaction towards it. In any event, there can bo no two opinions about the claim to a place among the great English poets of Dryden and Pope, whoso works will form the greater part of this afternoon's reading. Amongst the poetry included in it will bo Dryden's ' Song for St. Cecilia's Day,' Pope's ' The Dying Christian to His Soul,' and extracts from ' Absalom and Achitophel ' and the ' Essay on Criticism.' They will be read by Miss Edith Evans , the actress who has excelled most notably in speaking the lines of those Restoration and eighteenth-century dramatists who were the contemporaries oi Dryden and Pope.