EVEN in the narrowest sense in which it can be applied,, the distinction between ' men of action ' and ' men of words ' is very far from being universal. In the talks, of which this is the first, Mr. J. C. Squire , the poet, essayist and editor (f The London Mercury, will sketch the adventuro is lives of Sir Philip Sidney , Lord Byron, and Rupert Brooke , three poets who died in war.