11 JUNE 1898, page 17

Sharks.

(TO TEL EDITOR or TEE " spacmva.°1 Sin,—About two years ago, whilst sailing alone off the coast of one of the Bahama Islands, I saw what I believed to be at shark leap out of......

The Sugar Bounty Conference At Brussels.

[To ma EDITOR OF THY "SPECTATOR,"] SIR, - I see in your "News of the Week" in the Spectator of June 4th you mention the appointment of Mr. Lubbock and myself as expert advisers......

Animal Instinct.

[To nu EDITOR Or TH2 "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your article in the Spectator of October 23rd, 1897, as to the power of animals to see in the night, and as to their tendency to panic at......

Poetry.

MATER SEVERA. WHERE the huge Atlantic swings heavy water eastward, Ireland, square to meet it, shoulders off the seas; Wild are all her coasts with stress of cliff and billow,......