15 APRIL 1899, page 13

The Marathon Of The Seals. F Ar, Beyond The Roaring Track

of the homeward-bound merchantman, lie in the South Pacific the grim clusters of salt-whitened isles marked on the chart as the South Shet- lands. Many years have come and gone......

Letters To The Editor.

CROSS-QUESTIONERS CROSS-QUESTIONED. [TO THE EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR. "] Six, — Your readers may remember the epigrammatic saying, commonly though wrongly ascribed to Jowett,......

Another Coincidence.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR"] SIR, — In the French weekly paper, Les Annales Politique et Littiraire of March 26th, M. Camille Flammarion, in one of a series of articles on......

Wellington Anecdotes. [to The Editor Op The "spectator."]...

say in the Spectator of March 25th about the difficulty of preventing peculation in the Army reminds me of an anecdote I have heard my mother tell of the Duke of Wellington. A......