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Books.
THE STRANGLING OF PERSIA" THE reason why Mr. Shuster, for a short time Treasurer- General of Persia, failed to reform the Persian finances will be quite clear to readers of this......
Poetry.
STAR-RISE. Wnsx the first star shines forth, the lark, The singing star of Day, Drops from the heaven. She fears the dark In that wide trackless way. So in the heart, when Love......
A Protestant Mission To The Putumayo.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—The controversy that has followed the appeal for the esta- blishment of a Roman Catholic Mission on the Putumayo for the protection of......
[to The Editor Of The "spectator. "] Sir,—can You Allow Me
a corner to say how much interested I am in the letters on " Colours of Pain " in the Spectator of August 3rd and 17th ? As from childhood I have always seen different colours......
An Experiment In Conservative Revision.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your correspondent " L A. M." (Spectator, August 10th), had he remembered rightly what he heard on Easter Monday, would have worded his......
A Bird Story.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR: '] Sin,—Perhaps the following bird story may interest your readers. I am staying for a few weeks at Visegrad, on the Danube, near Budapest. We......