27 MARCH 1897, page 16

Poetry.

AN AUTUMN EVENING. GRAY is the sky, and gray the fading land, And a thin rim of starved gray fainting light On the bleak ridges flickers, that ring round This pastoral hollow......

Books.

SHAKESPEARE'S "RICHARD III."* SHAKESPEARE'S Richard III. undoubtedly makes a good acting play. Garrick, Cooke, and Edmund Kean found in Richard a part startlingly effective,......

West African Views Of The Soul.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Your article in the Spectator of March 20th on " West African Views of the Soul" was very interesting. Perhaps the following story may......

Futile Asceticisms.

[To THE EDITOR OF THY "SPECTATOR:] STR,—There is good authority for the views expressed in the article in the Spectator of March 20th under the above heading. The author of the......

How Poor Ladies Live, And What Has Been Done To

HELP THEM—A REJOINDER. (To THE EDITOR OF THE " SrECTAT011.."] SIE,—Two articles on the above subject have recently appeared, one in the Nineteenth Century, the other in the......