29 SEPTEMBER 1888, page 15

Books.

JANKA WOHL'S RECOLLECTIONS OF LISZT.* TnE author of these striking reminiscences—a Hungarian lady who for several years acted as Liszt's private secretary —has executed an......

Poetry.

MIST. I can rejoice that I have not been born In. Southern climes, where heavens are deep and clear, Where stars are brighter, and the hues of morn And sunset shine with richer......

(to Ma Editob Op Ter "spectlf0101 Correspondents Have Not...

that " snub," 4 ' sneap," and " snib " are undoubtedly connected with " snip," so that when you snub a man, you simply "cut him short," or "take him down a bit."—I am, Sir, &c.,......

[to The Editor Op The " Spectator:1

Sin,—In reply to Mr. Ainger's question as to there being " any precedent for such close intimacies between animals so widely separated in kind and habit" as the dog and pigeon......

" Sneap " And "snub."

[To ma EDITOR 01 TN11 "SPECTATOR." J 'Snt,-1 am informed by a Lincolnshire man that in his part of the country the word " snipy " (i long), as equivalent to 4 ' fault-finding,"......