18 FEBRUARY 1899, page 13

Peacocks.

T HE beautiful examples of the gradation of ornament in feathers, and of the evolution of the "peacock eye," shown at the Natural History Museum, are selected from the plumage......

Letters To The Editor.

THE " WHITE MAN'S BURDEN." [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The following inscription on a tombstone in the old burying-ground of the Macleods of Drynoch, Isle of Skye,......

[to Tee Editor Of The "spectator."]

Sin,—Without attempting to discuss your general argument as to the " white man's burden," I should like to say a few words on "the grand fact," which you proclaim, "that on the......