13 AUGUST 1881, page 12

Book S.

MR. OSCAR WILDE'S POEMS.* THE reading of this book fills us with alarm. It is evidently the work of a clever man, as well as of an educated man, but it is not only a book......

Poetry.

OUT WEST. UNDER the forest, of its snows unladen, And kissing back the nervous kiss of Spring, I sit and dream of courtly knight and maiden, And old-world pomp encompassing a......

Longer Life, Or Slower Death?

THZ EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—As I think that not only is gratitude due to sanitary science for its successful efforts to prolong human life, but that the intellectual......