19 DECEMBER 1896, page 16

Books.

GLIMPSES OF BOHEMIA.* THE Bohemia which Mr. Moscheles, in a style which is perhaps a little more suggestive of familiarity with the pencil than the pen, tells us in his preface......

To ---.

You say you cannot face your life's distress, And I, alas, no cure for grief possess ; But dormant courage may this thought awake— Fate in the choice of tools makes no mistake.......

Dog Stories.

[To TIM EDITOR OF THIS " SPICTATOR:] Sia,—The perusal of Mr. Thomas Brooksbank's dog-story in the Spectator of September 12th has induced me to send you two anecdotes of a dog I......

Poetry.

FAITH AND THE UNIVERSE. A TREMBLING Star that steals along, Vast Night's belated wanderer, A pale ghost by the splendour strong Of Venus and of Jupiter ; A world forlorn with......