23 JANUARY 1886, page 15

Poetry.

Nothing good is got by worry. Bide the hour to make the spring ! Take life easy : that's the thing. Do not trouble, do not trouble ! Heavy hearts make toiling double. Groans the......

Books.

AMIEL'S JOURNAL.* MRS. HIIMPHRY WARD closes her thoughtful introduction to this interesting book with a shaft at the people who are "certain" about the existence of the higher......

Open Parochial Church Boards

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." I SIR, - If the proposal which Mr. Llewelyn Davies defended in the Spectator of Jan. 9th—that Parochial Church Boards should be elected by......

Bullying In Schools.

FTO THE EDITOU OF THE " SPECTATOR." _I SIR,—One of the most suggestive circumstances of the sad affair at King's College School seems to have attracted little or no attention. I......