The "joachim."
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " 8rEcTATEE.1 Sra, — You ask, " What is a 'Joachim ?" "Joachim " is an old name for the German silver thaler, as coined from ore in the Joachimsthal, in......
Books.
SWISS SOLDIERS IN FRENCH ARMIES.* Suaraisz is sometimes expressed that the First Napoleon, whose greed for territory was so insatiable that he annexed nearly the whole of......
Tournaments.
[To ME EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.'1 have read with much interest Mr. Freeman's letter on the subject of the introduction of Tournaments into England in your last issue, in which......
Mr. Spencer's Religious Theory.
[TO IRE Burros or THE " Brscrkroa."] Sra,—As a warm admirer of much of the work of Mr. Herbert Spencer, and from the point of view of Christian Evolutionism, I must express my......
Are Dogs " Colour-blind "p
[To THE EDITOR or THE " BrEcraTos."] SIR, —Your correspondent," W. H. O'Shea," has found several dogs " colour-blind." If black is a colour, I can give several instances in......
Poetry.
THOUGHTS AT SUNRISE. Tai summer night is waning, and the morn Breaks over steaming streams and silent fields, With dim, far voices of the early dawn. God and his world are now......
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