The Stature Of Great Generals.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin, — In continuation of your correspondent's letter of the- 25th ult., on " The Stature of Great Generals," I believe that. there is but......
Parsons And Sign-posts.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—The parson and sign-post story is another of those -" stories to let " which the good story-teller gives point to by telling it of......
A Talking Canary.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Having read your article on " Talking Birds," in the Spectator of October 4th, I think you may like to hear of a canary who had been......
Books.
SAINTE-BEUVE.* [FIRST NOTICE.] THE European world rightly holds Sainte-Beuve to be at once the most erudite and the most brilliant of critics, though pos- sibly our imaginations......
Poetry.
REVERENCE. THERE is an inner voice in woods and bills Most sweet that it hath no articulate word ; The mystic chant of rivulet and bird With dreamlike longing all my spirit......
The Canary Bird.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—One word more on this subject. Having at one time bred canaries for a good many years, and having also spent a winter in Madeira, I......
Diocesan Conferences.
iTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sis,—Your article has given us the showy side of Diocesan Conferences ; but there is also a seamy side. " The old isolation" no doubt "was......
A Village Naturalist.
[In Memoriam: William Greenip (rural postman), a close observer of Natal) : obiit November let, at Keswick.] GOD sometimes fills a poor man's patient heart With His own reverent......
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