5 AUGUST 1899, page 15

Poetry.

PAUL KRUGER. DEEP mournful eyes that seek the ground The devious path to trace ; The giant form of Lincoln, crowned By Cromwell's grosser face ; Coarse rustic garb, of uncouth......

Books.

OLIVER CROMWELL.* IT would be difficult to imagine a more thoroughly inveis- factory book than that which forms the subject of this notice, • Myer eromicet By S. R. Gardiner.......

Canon Knox Little On South Africa. [to The Editor Of

THE `;SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The Spectator is generally credited with a desire for judicial fairness. To that desire I venture to appeal in asking leave to say a word of protest,......