4 NOVEMBER 1899, page 30

A Correction.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Yon state in your excellent description of the attack on Talana Hill (Spectator, October 28th) that "the Dublin Fusiliers and the 60th......

The Solar Rainbow.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have little doubt that what your correspondents saw on Wednesday, October lltb, was a fragmentary phase of the well-known, though......

William Penn Symons. (mortally Wounded In Action At...

OCTOBER 20TH; DIED OCTOBER 23RD, 1899.) TILL England's praise had reached thee, and our sore And grateful hearts were to thy sight reveal'd, Merciful death a little while......

Books.

THE HISTORIAN OF BATTLES.f KINGLAKE'S masterpiece, edited for military students, must perforce lose something of its strength and character. For Kinglake was not merely the......

Poetry.

KING'S ROYAL RIFLES. ROYAL DUBLIN FUSILIERS. OCTOBER 20TH. PEACE to the empty rhetorical prater, Peace to your " patriot " chatter and brag ! What ! did you deem that the Celt......