13 NOVEMBER 1909, page 20

Tying Crape On Bee-hives.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Having read several letters in the Spectator on the subject of bees, and recalling the superstition connected with tying crape on the......

Notice.—when Articles Or "coriespotulence" Are Signed...

or initiate, 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......

Books.

LADY SARAH WILSON'S SOUTH AFRICAN MEMORIES.* "ADVENTURES to the adventurous" is no doubt true, but adventurous though every member of the Churchill family be, Lady Sarah Wilson......

Poetry.

IN God's cathedral huge as earth I stand— A child before an Empire's Altar High- () mother, mould and school our childish land, Thy cords of love in love yet faster tie : Our......

A Martyr To Science.—dr. J. H. Wells.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOE.” . 1 SIB,—The death of Dr. John Herbert Wells last month at the early age of thirty adds another name to the list of those who have lost their......

Slave-grown Cocoa.

Ws have received the following contributions in answer to the appeal of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society, on behalf of the deputation to the United States :—......