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Books.

FREEMAN'S "METHODS OF HISTORIC AL STUDY." 8 Mn. FREEMAN is new to the Chair of Modern History in Oxford; but 'not to the work of teaching history. For thirty years he has been......

Poetry.

TO MY MOTHER. (TRINSLATZ.D FROM HEINE.) I LEFT thee once in mad desire to find The Love for which my spirit yearned with pain, At many a door I knocked and knocked in vain,......

The "collapsed Bladder" Of Positivism.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—With reference to your conviction that " the pretensions of Positivism to supply mankind with religious consolations and religious......

The East Cambridgeshire Election.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR... j SIR,—The simple explanation of my polling the phenomenally small number of 298 votes in the late contest in East Cam- bridgeshire, in......

August In The Keswick Vale. Now Genial August, July's...

child, Comes with the bloom of heather on her cheek, Rain, cloud, and sun play games of hide-and-seek: Old Skiddaw frowns, anon is reconciled. For harvest-home the last hay.......