30 MAY 1891, page 15

The Rarity Of Hereditary Poets. [to The Editor Or The

" EIPECTLTOR."] SIR,—In the Spectator of May 23rd, you say that, "except in the case of the Coleridges, the De Veres, the Roscoes, and the two Lord Houghtons, we can trace no......

The Ethical Necessity Of Miracle.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."3 SIR, — Might I be allowed to add to the arguments advanced by yourself, and a correspondent in the Spectator of May 23rd, as to the logical......

"j. K. S.'s " Parody On Browning.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Srn,—There appeared in the Spectator of May 9th a review of " Lapsus Calami," by "J. K. S.," in which a striking parody of Robert Browning's......

Weather-forecasting.

[TO THU EDITOR OP THE " SPILOTATORrl Sin,—Whatever advances meteorology may have made as a. science, it seems abundantly clear that it has not arrived at a. point of much......