13 OCTOBER 1877, page 15

Professor Tyndall's 'poetical' Soul.

[TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Stn,—In your tussle with Professor Tyndall last week, you leave. your adversary on the horns of a dilemma, from which, in the- judgment, we......

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VILLANELLE. '0 SUMMER-TIME, SO passing sweet, But heavy with the breath of flowers, But languid with the fervent heat, They chide amiss who call thee fleet,— Thee, with thy......

Books.

GEORGE CHAPMAN.* GEORGE CHAPMAN was endowed by nature with groat poetical gifts, he achieved by industry great poetical deeds, and great poetical fame has been thrust upon his......

Penny Banks.

In THE EDITOR Or TER "SPECTATOR:I SIR,—In a recent number of the Spectator, a correspondent, 44 M. G. G.," gives some striking facts in regard to the success of 44 the National......