21 DECEMBER 1901, page 18

Dew Ponds And Rural Water Supply.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEC PATOR."] Sm,—The correspondence upon dew ponds which has ap- peared lately in your columns has been of great interest to me, coming at a time,......

Slum Children.

[To TER EDITOR Op TILE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, --- A8 a lover of slum children I must thank your writer in the Spectator of December 14th for giving us the expression "the new......

Books.

MR. BALFOUR ON BELIEF.* Mn. BALFOUR may fairly be congratulated on seeing the eighth edition in six years of his book on The Foundations of Belief. It is to the credit alike of......

Poetry.

CHRISTMAS, 1901. Gown are the leafy noons, and far behind The suns that rose and set to warbled song, The moons that heard the deathless nightingale ; And the last furrow is......