15 JUNE 1901, page 17

Poetry.

TILE WASTED LIFE. THE autumn hours are come—the hours that yield Rich harvest in each toiler's well-tilled field. Alas ! alas ! no seed I sowed in spring Now meet and ripe for......

Music.

SHAKESPEARIAN OPERA. THERE are few more interesting points in the literary history of art than the inspiring influence of Shakespeare on musical, and especially operatic,......

The Session Of The Poets.—auuner, 1866. Di Titagni,...

!—CAT. LIB. LIII. The following stanzas are taken from a poem by the late Mr. Robert Buchanan which appeared in the Spectator of September 15th, 1866. We reprint them as a......

The English Mocking-bird.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—When I was Governor of the County Prison in Mon- mouthshire at Usk some five-and-twenty years ago I had very favourable opportunity of......

Railroad Animals.

V O THE EDITOR OE TILE SPECTATOR.") Szn,- , -In an article entitled as above in the Spectator of June 8th attention is drawn to the expectant coyotes on the Canadian-Pacific......