(to The Editor Of The " Spectator."1
have read with much interest your correspondent's letter on the capability of animals to distinguish tunes. I had a small dog who, when first I got him, would have howled......
Birds In London.
LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "' Highbury we consider we are in London, and there- fore our surprise is great to find the great titmouse (a pair) a frequenter of our garden.......
Thomas Campbell.
PTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."" SIR,—May I be allowed to say that, while agreeing in the main with your reviewer's estimate of the merits of Camp- bell's two long poems, "......
Ito The Editor Of The "spectator. "" Sir, —dogs, As Well As
horses, can recognise tunes. Many years ago, a friend, during a short absence from our station on the Kurrumfooler, lent my sister a pet-dog. Cissie was constantly in the room......
[to The Editor Cif The "spectator. "] Sin, — Anent "...
the Zoo," the following facts may interest you. Of two dogs of mine, one showed a great fond- : ness for music. She (though usually my shadow) would always leave me to go to a......
Books•
CECILIA. DE NOEL* Cecilia de Noel is hardly to be called a story, but it is well worthy of the author of Mademoiselle Ixe. The style is admirable ; the figures are all vividly......
Whitby.
WHERE the grey Northern sea gnaws cliffs of shale, and the white waves Wrestle in hissing wrath with a brown, irrepressible river, Hilda, the Saint, the Princess, founded a fair......
Poetry.
IRISH SONG. (Air: ' What ahall I do with this silly old man f WHEN Carroll axed Kate for her heart and a hand That controwled just a hundred good acres of land, Her lovely brown......
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