30 APRIL 1881, page 15

Poetry.

TO APRIL. [FROM A SICK-BED.] .0 APRIL month of sweet expectancies, The girlhood of the year, the pride of Spring, Why coin'st thou thus .on Earns' withering wing, _And 'neath......

Mr. Romanes On Vivisection.

[re THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] S1R,—As a member of the Society for the Protection of Animals liable to Vivisection, I crave the insertion of a few lines in vindication of......

Books.

THE CONTINEI1T OF THE FUTURE.* Da. HoLue's seven years of travel, research, and hunting Adventures between the South-African diamond-fields and the Zambesi, began with 1872, and......