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Books.

YOUTH.* AMONG the qualities which distinguish French writers is the power of investing ideas with concrete form and vivid colour. Few nations can point to such a record of noble......

Plagues In Nature.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." ] Sin,—Your correspondent of August 24th gives some very interesting particulars, personally observed, concerning the usefulness of frogs in......

" Sody And Boul."

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Your correspondent, in the Spectator of September 9th, Francis W. Holmes, has added another to the amusing tale of verbal......

England And The Suez Canal.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR,"] SIR, It is Mr. Milner's argument, not mine, to which your reviewer (Spectator of September 9th) of my article on "England's Right to the......