17 DECEMBER 1887, page 17

Charles Darwin.

(To um Banos or sus .1SrscrAros."1 Sla,—In the interesting article that appeared in the Spectator of December 10th on " Charles Darwin," the writer dwells on the point that we......

Poetry.

HORACE—BOOK IV., ODE 4. [This noble Ode, if composed, as some suppose, at the instance of Augustus, manifests nothing of the feebleness which so often charac- terises poems......