15 APRIL 1899, page 17

Books.

SIR MOUNTSTUART GRANT DUFF'S DIARY.* Tax four volumes that have already appeared of Sir Mount- stuart Grant Duff's Diary have set the example which the further instalment now......

Waterfalls For Sale.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Slit,—Members of the Bergens Polytekniske Forening would be very thankful for advice from you whom to address or where to write in London......

Khartoum.

By the old Egyptian river, on the shore Is a white-walled city built by men of yore : There, amid the desert sands, like a monument it stands, With a bloodstain on its memory......

The Influenza.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—An interesting question has been raised in your columns on the comparative liability of rich and poor to the influenza. On March 11th a......

Poetry. -e--- God's Magic.

CROWNED with a floating splendour of flame, the sun Sinks, and from west to east the windless air Flushes with tremulous warmth of rosy grey ; Golden, and purple, and blue, the......