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• The Ethics Of Receiving.

[To 'RN EDITOR 07 TBN "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—May I recall a good description of the desired delicacy in the art of giving, and an excellent instance of when a man in need would be......

Books.

HOW FRANCE IS GOVERNED.* WHEN the President of the French Republic becomes an author he is sure to find readers. But M. Poincare has not trusted to this certainty. He has made......

Aladdin's Carpet.

[To TBN EDITOR 07 TYE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Most guide-books invite the correction of errors. Surely a small slip has crept into Mr. Alfred Cochrane's delightful Italian "......

Poetry.

LIGHT. "THE name of God to me was never dear ; I scoffed at God and Christ, and knew no fear ; Now stricken with remorse and shame am I, Perceiving how a Christian man can die."......

The Late Mr. John B. Thayer. [to The Editor Of

THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The appreciative reference in Mr. Maude's letter in the Spectator of August 2nd to the incident at Lord's in 1884, in which the late Mr. John B. Thayer,......

The Commons Preservation Society Fund.

We have received the following donation to the above Fund:— Captain A. P. Birchall B. d. 2 2 0 ••11 . •••......

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