17 SEPTEMBER 1892, page 17

Vultures.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...] SIE,—Perhaps the following incident would interest students of natural history amongst your readers. Last week some sports took place at a......

The Honest Cuckoo.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE."] SIR,—I turned with as great expectation to the letter from Mr. Scot Skirving about the cuckoo in your last issue as I did to that published......

"criminal Animals."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SEECTATOR."] SIR,—The writer of the article in the Spectator of September 10th, having the above title, has made an astonishing mis- quotation in the......

St. Paul At Athens.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR,"] have neither said nor implied that St.VPattl's presence on Areopagus meant a "formal trial with the usages tradi-. tional in cases of......

Poetry.

ENGLA.ND MY MOTHER. [Epilogue, from an unpublished volume.] I. ENGLAND my Mother, Wardress of waters, Builder of peoples, Maker of men,— Ha,st thou yet leisure Left for the......