25 JANUARY 1902, page 33

Poetry.

ALMA MATER. WHEN I am dead my soul will come To where, beside the sluggish stream, The old grey city's sleepy hu m Drones on like music in a dream ; From the pale meads of......

Indoor Rifle Practice.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SP IICTALTOR."] SIR, —As you have for a long time taken great interest in rifle practice, I enclose a cutting on that highly important subject taken from......

Village Superstitions.

[To THY EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Six,—The opinion of an old Lancashire gamekeeper who was my instructor in the art of shooting nearly fifty years ago on the subject of ghosts......

Historical Art.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I was surprised to read in your notice in the Spectator of January 18th of the historical pictures at the New Gallery that there is no......

Russian . Finance.

[To THE EDITOR OP TER "SPECTATOR.' SIR, In the leaderette in the Spectator of the 18th inst. touching last year's deficit the writer has converted the Russian into the English......

The Concentration . Camps. [to The Editor Op Thz "...

SIE,..-S0 much has been implied lately as to the unwilling- ness of the authorities in South Africa to let the public know the exact condition of the women and children in the......