13 FEBRUARY 1904, page 17

The Wind Was Rising Easterly, The Morning Sky Was Blue,

The Straits before us opened wide and free; We looked towards the Admiral, where high the Peter flew, And all our hearts were dancing like the sea. "The French are gone to......

The Russians In Finland.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — During the present crisis in the Far East it is perhaps natural that more stress should be laid on the foreign policy than on the......

Of Late There Has Sprung Up A Very Agreeable Class

of books in America, of which Mr. Henry Van Dyke's Little Rivers is one of the best known : books of gipsy life, camping, fishing, and pioneering in the great woods and down the......