The Absence Of Wheels In Nature.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Surely all animal locomotion is effected by means of wheel action modified to suit the special conditions ? Legs and arms move on wheels......
The Little Owl.
[TO THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR.,—ThC recent letters in your paper on this subject brought to my recollection a story in Edward FitzGerald's Letters about his "doing his......
Some Autumn Exhibitions.
No one who has hurried through the press view of a big exhibition, with his artistic sensibility reacting violently to the hundreds of assaults upon it by the opposing varieties......
High Pheasants.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your review of Sir R. Payne-Gallwey's book on Pheasant Shooting you comment on the author's assertion that pheasants overhead look......
Peeping Tom.
I SAT in my chamber yesternight ; I lit the lamp, I drew the blind, And scratched with a quill at paper white ; With Mistress Bess was all my mind ! But stormy gusts had rent......
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