4 APRIL 1896, page 14

Letter To The Editor.

"HUMAN DOCUMENTS." [To TIM EDITOR OP TRY SPECTATOR."' SIR,—You have honoured me with so powerful a destructive criticism of my " Human Documents," in the Spectator of March......

Books.

MARY ANDERSON'S "MEMORIES." • THIS is a lively and unaffected book, which errs only in finding a motive for its appearance, which, though very likely one of the motives, we can......

Nansen.

Fain is the Sword, a weapon of delight ! But fairest when the flashing blade obeys A practised hand, an arm of giant might: Swift as-a meteor flaming through the night, With......

Poetry.

Noir semper imbres nubibus hispidos Mutant in agros aut mare Cas- ium Vexant inaequales procellae Usque, nec Armeniis in oris, Arnica Valgi, stat glades iners Menses per omnes......

Over-equipped Animals.

A LECTURE recently given at the Royal Institution by Dr. Fraser on the medical treatment of the bite of venomous serpents fully confirms the popular estimate of the deadly......