30 DECEMBER 1911, page 18

An English Cat.

[TO TER EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Patriotism forbids me to allow any superior intelligence tothe American cat. Some few years ago I possessed a very delightful black......

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or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of......

An Englishwoman In Italy.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SIERT110t?l Srn,—I have read the letter of "An Englishwoman in Italy" in your issue of December 16th, a letter which offers a cha- racteristic example of......

Poetry.

SILVESTERABEND. Tun mists are gathering in the nave, They creep from bay to bay, Column and arch and architrave Fade in the dusk away. The mists are gathering in the nave, The......

Starlings.

[To THE EDITOR Of THE "SPECTATOR. "] BM—The writer on starlings in the Spectator of December 9th thinks that these birds were not common in the western counties of Wales fifty......

The Southern Slav Question. [to The Editor Of The "

EFECTATOR."] SIR, —The writer of the above article gives the impression to your readers that Mr. Seton-Watson'a book is forbidden in the Dual Monarchy. I cannot speak of Vienna,......

Books.

SHELLEY.* Tun phrase with which Arnold closed his essay on Shelley, describing him as a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain has long......