4 AUGUST 1883, page 16

The Ritualists.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") S1R,-A Steamboat Company hires the services of a Captain, giving him iustructions where to proceed, &c. On taking charge, the captain......

A Correction.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Pray, Sir, have the kindness to inform an admiring but perplexed reader of your article on M. de Lesseps how, at five a.m., and with......

Do Dogs Understand Our Language ?

[To TER EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I think the question has been mooted in your columns as to whether dogs sometimes understand our language. A cir- cumstance that has......

Books.

MR. JULIAN HAWTHORNE'S LATEST NOVEL.* To one who, like the present writer, is grateful to Mr. Julian Hawthorne for a large amount of peculiar but very genuine intellectual......

Dr. Maudsley On Free-will.

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. ") was much surprised in reading Dr. Maudsley's ex- planation of what he considers the illusion of Free-will in your columns, to see that he......