7 OCTOBER 1911, page 33

An Essay Society.

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIR, I should be very grateful for an opportunity of bringing to the notice of any of your readers to whom it may be of interest an essay......

Wasps.

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Apropos of the interesting letters concerning wasps in your issue of September 30th, I should very much like to know if it is a general......

Books.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.* Climax is an influence which the critical faculty can scarcely analyse, for the infinite variety of its expression prevents us from defining it, and we......

Poetry.

THE SECOND OF SEPTEMBER, 1792. BESIDE the red portal, Axe-smitten, he fell : And I deemed him immortal, Immortal as Hell ! Where the slain, by the stone, Made a slippery mound,......

Swallows And Martins And Their Nest Building.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR!' _I is the general opinion, I believe, that swallows and martins in building their nests bring little lumps of mud in their mouths, which......

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