20 APRIL 1901, page 11

Vastness And Isolation.

F E W people can have read Wordsworth's great ode on the " intimations of immortality arising from the recol- lections of early childhood " without wondering what it exactly was......

A. War On Rats.

M ONDAY'S telegrams from South Africa brought the unpleasant news that " plague rats " had been found dead at Port Elizabeth. As it is now known that these animals are more......