17 OCTOBER 1891, page 16

[to The Editor Or The "spectator. "] Sin, — The Extremely...

on " Orpheus at the Zoo," which have lately appeared in the Spectator, have suggested to me that possibly you might care for an anecdote which goes to prove that horses can......

Accidental Conversation.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—The case of execution of the men for rick-burning referred to by your correspondent, occurred about 1832 in North Somerset (I think......

Books.

RODNEY.* MR. HANNAY'S Life of Rodney, in Messrs. Macmillan's. "English Men of Action," is an admirable contribution to an. admirable series. Mr. Hannay not only writes of the......

Poetry.

IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. October 10th, 1891. WHY do the great and famed repair Hitler to-day, and why Rolleth the full-voiced Requiem where Kings, warriors, poets, lie ? What......

Girton College.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The Executive Committee of Girton College having been informed that the name of the agency for governesses, advertised in the Spectator......

[to The Editor Or The " Spectator:9 Venture To Give

expression to a hope that your "Orpheus" will make public some more results of his interesting musical experiments upon the inhabitants of the Zoo. His recent articles in the......