27 FEBRUARY 1869, page 15

English Anapiestic Metres.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I observe that Mr. Palgrave speaks of the metre of his Elegy to Lord Strangford as "anapaestic or dactylic." May I venture to ask whether......

" This Is My Body."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—The suggestion of your able and thoughtful correspondent "E. V. N." in your last issue is ingenious, but I cannot help thinking it far......

Books.

A LEGACY OF VERSE.* IT ispainful work making acquaintance for the first time with a mind of rare genius and sweetness which has already and only just left us, and yet left us......