From The House Pigeons Of London.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") Sin,—The kind hospitality of your columns has been asked for our marauding kinsmen, the gulls, who should have long flown back to their......

Books

• THE JESTER WITH A PURPOSE.* Hitherto the prefaces, if not the best part, have been as good as any part of the fare Mr. Shaw sets before us when he publishes a volume of plays.......

Poetry.

SHEPHERD'S SONG. O BLACK and white the shepherd's plaid That haps me warm and weel, And black and white the shepherd's dog That follows at my heel. O black and high the winter......

Augurs Meeting And Laughing.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I am much obliged to you for your notice of my book, "The Profitable Imbroglio.' Your reviewer, however, has missed an essential point......

Lord Roberts And Eton.

[To TER EDITOR or rHa " erscreroa."] Sra,—Will you kindly allow me, through your columns, to bring before Old Etonians a matter of interest to them and to the School ? The......

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or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of......

Rooks, Crows, And Choughs.

[To THE EDITOR. OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sul,—The writer of the article on " Gulls in Winter," in your issue of February 18th, appears to consider that the rook has only recently......