What Is A Verger?
[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIn, •;4 propos of a story told in the Spectator of November 7th, I can repeat the following conversation that actually occurred. Verger:......
Poetry.
IMMORTALITY. 0 THINKING brain that lately with us wrought'st, By death surprised at thine unfinished task, For one, a thousand lives thou shouldest ask ; Learning is endless,......
Books.
A SECOND SERIES OF SHIRLEY'S TABLE-TALK. 0 Da. SKELTON, the historian and champion of Mary Queen of Scots, and author of that charming collection of essays and. reminiscences......
A Bird-story.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Many years ago, I kept a canary in a cage which was suspended by a thickish cord in a window recess. I had noticed that the bird seemed......