7 OCTOBER 1893, page 18

Strange Survivals.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—Seeing mention made in the review of Mr. Bar•ing- Gould's book " Strange Survivals," in the Spectator of September 23rd, of an old......

Poetry.

THE MISCHIEF-MAKING KETTLE. You picture it : an eight-day clock The tale of hours repeating, .And grandsire chuckling in his stock To think of Honey's beating; The flash of fire......

A Prophet " Malgre Lui."

fro TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — " When the Peers begin to be firm and to assert their dignity, it may always be taken for granted that there is not much popular......

Children's Letters.

[To TILE EDITOR OF TEE 4. SPECTATOR.1 forward a genuine letter from a schoolboy to his mot her :- "Mr DEAR MA,—I wright to tell you I am very retched and my chilblains is worse......

Books.

THE POETRY OF ARCHITECTURE.* Tins is a youthful work of Mr. Ruskin's, exhumed from the- pages of Loudon's Architectural Magazine for 1837. As the- full title shows, the original......

The New Utopia.

[To TEE EDITOR OP THE " SPEOTATOR."] your article on Herr Richter's " Pictures of the Socialist Regime," in the Spectator of September 23rd, you make no mention of Mr. Jerome's......