18 AUGUST 1888, page 17

A Remedy For Polygamy.

[To THE EDITOR 01 TEl "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Your note in your issue of August 11th on the deliverance of the Bishops as to African converts with several wives, brought to my mind......

Poetry.

WORDSWORTH. I DREAMED I was a poet once ; but all Nature ' s most mighty spells of sound and sight Fell on my heart like softest notes that fall, And, dying, only wake a dumb......

Books.

• England under the Angenn Yings. By Rate Norgate. In 2 vols. London : Macmillan and Co. 1287. • which the author can say that it was eleven years in making. Some great books......

To An Infant, With A Watch In His Hand.

NOT the grey spectre of the scythe and sand, And soundless wings subversive in their flight, Not he, the wasteful wizard prone to blight And crumble all that hopeful men have......

An Unauthenticated Quotation. [to Ths Editor Or The "...

you kindly inform me if the following paragraph has ever appeared in your paper ?—" Grover Cleveland has done more to advance the cause of Free-trade than any Prime Minister of......