" Dactylic " Verse In English.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have not noticed so good a specimen quoted by any of your correspondents as " The Lark," by James Hogg. The first six lines are as follows Bird......
Cutting Timber At The Time Of The Full Moon.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Six,—I have just read with much interest the review of Mr. Guise's book, Six Years in Bolivia, which appeared in your issue of October 28th. As......
A Fish-catching Rat.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Some days ago a parishioner of mine saw a strange disturbance and splashing in a stream in my parish. He stood still for about five......
The Elusive Shakespeare. [to The Editor Of The...
Hookham is rather hard on Shakespeare ; in Coriolanus he finds a repulsive mentality, explained by " artistic decadence " and " moral blindness." Lord Macaulay must be as......
[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Venture To Submit, Pace
Mr. Arthur C. Jennings in your issue of December 2nd, that Byron meant rather to prance in anapaests than canter in dactyls—or, it would be fairer to say his preliminary canter......
A North-east Yorkshire Garden.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—On reading of the gardens in winter in Surrey and in Dublin I went round my garden, which is less than a mile from Whitby, on the top of a......
Dr. Schliemann's Widow.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have followed with great interest your references to Dr. Schliemann's work at Troy in an article published in the Spectator, in addition......
[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sia,—the Lines Quoted By
your correspondent from The Bride of Abydos are very familiar to me. They were cited in this same connexion by Edgar Allan Poe so long ago as 1848. He pointed out that if we......
[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sin,—in Assam It Is
the custom never to cut bamboos until after full moon, as, if they are cut while the moon is waxing, the small insect which comes after the sap is in the bamboo, and in time......
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