17 JULY 1897, page 17

What Schoolboys Read.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR.' Sin,—On reading your article in the Spectator of June 26th on "The Illiterate Undergraduate," I had caused a paper to be set very much on the......

Poetry.

THEY AND WE.* WITH stormy joy, from height on height The thundering torrents leap. The mountain tops, with still delight, Their great inaction keep. Man only, irked by calm, and......

Irish Donkeys For South Africa.

ITo VIE EDITOR Os TEE SPECTATOR."] have read your instructive article under the above heading in the Spectator of July 10th. I read it, too, with more than ordinary interest,......

Books.

A NEW TRANSLATION OF BOETHIUS4 IT is, we believe, rather more than a century since a new English version has appeared of that once popular manual, the Consolation of Philosophy,......