12 FEBRUARY 1887, page 15

Poetry.

" WITH AN AMETHYST." [SUGGESTED BY A PERSIAN PABLE.1 WHITE lie the February snows, By wooing sunbeams softly kissed; And at thy white breast, lady, glows My amethyst. The magic......

The "red Church," Bethnal Green. [to Rat 50170r Or Ras

"Sermrroa."J SIB, — It is gratifying for the public to learn from the Hon. Mande Stanley's letter of February 1st, that the marriage scenes described in "Problems of a Great......

M. Pasteur's Statistics.

[TO TER EDITOR Or THE 4. 8.-scrixoz.-] Sin,—In M. Pasteur's absence from Paris, his latest communi- cation on his method for preventing hydrophobia was read last month by Dr.......

Professor Huxley's Realism.

[To rat BOMB or Tar Eirscrrroa.1 Sin,—With reference to the latter part of your reply, in the Spectator of February 5th, to Professor Huxley's article in the current Nineteenth......

Mr. Browning's New Volume.—christopher Smart.

[To ma Emma or ma "Srscreroa."] Bra,—The following " parleying of certain people of importance in his day " about poor Christopher Smart may be of some interest, now that Mr.......