10 JANUARY 1891, page 13

A Wise Dog.

[To THE EDITOR OP TAB " SPECTATOR." ] SIR,—The following extract from a letter dated December 21st, 1890, written by a young Englishman who is working on a railway in Texas,......

Books.

THE VENETIAN PRINTING-PRESS.* THE almost simultaneous appearance of Signor Castellani's La Stampa in Venezia and Mr. Horatio Brown's Venetian Printing-Press—each of them a work......

Poetry.

A VIGNETTE. HIGH in the blue the swallows swim like moths : Bronzed brambles lean o'er chalky cliffs ; below The stream beneath the mill-wheel whirls and froths, Then wounded......

Birds In Fog.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPEOTATOR.1 `Sin,—With reference to the remark in your interesting article on the above subject in the Spectator of December 27th, that rooks and......

The Growth Of Idleness.

[TO THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I have read your article in the Spectator of November -8th, 1890, with great interest, especially that portion relating to the means......

Mb. Besant's Christmas Book.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR, I read in the Spectator of January 3rd an attack—and the second attack of the Spectator—on a recent story of mine. Your writer says :......