7 AUGUST 1869, page 15

Poetry.

PRO MORTUIS. WHAT should a man desire to leave ? A flawless work ; a noble life : Some music harmonized from strife, Some finish'd thing, ere the slack hands at eve Drop, should......

[to The Editor Of The "spectator.")

find that a letter which appeared in your last number, signed "Helen T.," has been mistaken by many of my friends for mine, and this is not the first time that such signatures......

Books.

THE DUKE OF ARGYLL ON PRIMEVAL MAN.* THE object of this little brochure, which is written with all its author's usual clearness and strength of thought, is not, as we understand......