1 OCTOBER 1881, page 13

Early Science.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—" Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona," and there were observing naturalists before Charles Darwin. The following extracts from the......

Extraordinary Tithes.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SLR, — The Spectator is generally so just and so free from the vulgarity of taking up a cry against one class to please another, that I feel......

Poetry.

IDYLLS OF THE ILIAD.—III. RHESUS. "I, RHESUS, son of great Eioneus- By favour of Lord Ares, King of Thrace, Subject alone to Ares, and to me- _ Hither, at bidding of my father's......