Poetry.
We too are straitened in their winding-sheet, We wear their charnel weeds : our willing feet Were fain to follow theirs in ways unknown. We stand o'er graves where yet no grass......
Books.
THE EPISODE OF THE BAB.* A LEARNED Oriental once remarked to M. Renan that-no European can write intelligently of the origins of ancient religions, because Europeans, unlike......
The Extraordinary Deal At Whist.
[To TEE EDITOR OP THE " EIPICTATOR."] Su,—Is it really the case, as stated in the Spectator of April 16th, that "every old whist-player" must have seen all the trumps in one......
To Th1 Editor Op Tel "spectator."]
SIR,—Two private correspondents from different parts of the North of England, and "W. J. P." in your columns from East London, confirm the usage of " translator " to denote a......
"translation."
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The observations of your correspondent, " W. J. P.," in the Spectator of April 16th, regarding the peculiar use of the word "......
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