14 NOVEMBER 1896, page 16

What Is A Verger?

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIn, •;4 propos of a story told in the Spectator of November 7th, I can repeat the following conversation that actually occurred. Verger:......

Poetry.

IMMORTALITY. 0 THINKING brain that lately with us wrought'st, By death surprised at thine unfinished task, For one, a thousand lives thou shouldest ask ; Learning is endless,......

Books.

A SECOND SERIES OF SHIRLEY'S TABLE-TALK. 0 Da. SKELTON, the historian and champion of Mary Queen of Scots, and author of that charming collection of essays and. reminiscences......

A Bird-story.

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Many years ago, I kept a canary in a cage which was suspended by a thickish cord in a window recess. I had noticed that the bird seemed......