14 NOVEMBER 1891, page 17

" Result " And " Resilience."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—I should like, with your permission, to say another word in defence of " result." It seems to me that one of the true functions of what......

Poetry.

THE END OF THE LONG JOURNEY. JOHN SANDERSON was dying, In summer, on Mendir-side, In the co:0 age where his father, And father's father, died. And dying has grown so common, And......

Books.

WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE'S POEMS.* • Miss RoscoE has done well in republishing her father's poems in a separate volume, and in a shape that will be at once convenient and......

Left-handedness.

[To THE EDITOR or THE EFECTATOR."1 SIR,—In your review of the book published by Messrs. Mac- millan, on " Left-Handedness," you refer to Leonardo da Vinci and Holbein as being......

The Birds Of Norfolk.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—In your issue of October 31st, you speak of the notice of the capped petrel V(Estrelata hesitate) in Stevenson'a " Birds of Norfolk,"......