16 APRIL 1898, page 15

Poetry.

RIDING at dawn, riding alone, Gillespie left the town behind ; Before he turned by the Westward road A horseman crossed him, staggering blind. 4‘ The Devil's abroad in false......

Animal Characteristics.

[To ME EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR,—Can you not suggest that writers on natural history should, if only for variety, tell ordinary folk the things we all want to know about......

Books.

THE RULE OF THE EXCEPTIONAL MAN.* WITH the main idea of this work, which is quite the most important that Mr. Mallock has yet produced, we do not think there can be any dispute,......