4 FEBRUARY 1899, page 13

Burrowing Birds.

T HE" walking fish " now to be seen in the tortoise-house at the " Zoo" are the most recent instance shown in London of a striking anomaly in Nature. But it may he doubted......

[to The Editor On T'he "spectator."]

SIR, — The origin of the metre and the various sources of in- spiration of " In Memoriam " are very fully discussed in chap. 7 of Mr. Churton Collins's " Illustrations of......

Industry And Scenery.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. " ] venture to send you an extract freely translated from an interesting and well-written Welsh work published last week—" The History of the......

(to The Editor Op The "spectator:1

Slit,—Your article on " Industry and Scenery " gives much food for reflection. As our population increases day by day, and coal grows scarcer year by year, it does seem......

Letters To The Editor.

THE NEW FOREST AS A SANCTUARY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...] SIR, —The writer of the article ender the above title in the Spectator of January 28th suggests that the......

The "in Memoriam" Metre.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — The poem, in a metre now and for ever consecrated as the peculiar property of Tennyson, which Dr. Garnett repub- lishes for the......