Intellectual Instruction In Elementary Schools.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Being of the number of those who think, with Professor Huxley (see Nineteenth Century of this month), that our elemen- tary schools......

Poetry.

DEAR SOU of God, not all unknown To those who hourly seek thy throne, Oh, make us more and more thine own, Even as we pray : Help us the battle to begin Against the dull,......

Virgil.

" Felix qui potuit rerum cogneseere eau.as, Atque flatus onuses et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibua, strepitumque Aoherontis oval i." "Bunt lacrymse rerum, et mentem mortalia......

Exceptional Senses.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE."] SIR,—In reference to the firing at Cherbourg heard at Lyme, as mentioned by " X. Y. Z.," I will add that the firing at the battle between......

Dr. Asa Gray.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, — It is scarcely fitting that the grave should close over the remains of Dr. Asa Gray without a few works of notice in your journal, of......

Edward Lear.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,") 812,—Your note on this genial artist calls to mind the way in which he used pathetically to bewail the success of "The Book of Nonsense." "I......

Art.

IN our first article on this exhibition, we have chiefly spoken of the first and third rooms ; we will now say a few words on some of the more important compositions in the......