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The Starlings' Autumn Manceuvres.

[To T117 EDITOR OF TUB SPECTATOB.".1 Sin,—The late Mr. Assheton-Smith was a man of some account in his day, and when he died, a biography of him came to be written. It is not a......

A Nature Memorandum Of October.

[To TH7 EDITOR 07 THE "sescreroa."1 Sia,—An October "memorandum " from Nature may possibly interest you. This has been the hottest summer I remember in London since 1868; yet I......

Books.

THE PRIVY COUNCIL.* Tits true nature of a political Constitution, like that of a. man, can only be completely known and understood when alive. How- ever perfect are the......