10 OCTOBER 1903, page 19

Books.

MR. MORLEY'S LIFE OF GLADSTONE.* [FIRST NOTICE.] THE great subject of this great memoir, fortunate as he was in so many of the circumstances and occasions of his long life, was......

The Chantrey Bequest.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,---May I venture to say, whilst agreeing with much of your article on the Chantrey Bequest in the Spectator of October 3rd, that I think......

Sir N. Lockyer And Trained Scientists. [to The Editor Of

THE " SPECTATOR. "] 311E,—In common, I imagine, with most Englishmen who think about the future of their country, I was much moved by Sir Norman Lockyer's recent address to the......

The Effect Of Excessive Railway Charges On The Trade Of

THE COUNTRY. [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIE.,—With reference to Mr. J. A. Sargent's letter in the Spectator of September 26th under the above beading, may I be......

A Correction.

rro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPILDFATOR.".1 Sin,—Will you kindly allow me space in your valuable columns to correct an error which occurs in the interest- ing paragraph regarding the......

Poetry.

Nature should hush by one wide law The patter of four fitful feet, The scrape of a persistent paw. And yet the house is changed and still, Waiting to echo as before Hot bursts......