24 SEPTEMBER 1898, page 16

Books.

DEAN MERIVALE.* Ow the eve of his sixty-fourth birthday Charles Merivale, who had then been Dean of Ely for a little more than two years, began to write his autobiography. The......

Poetry.

OLD NOVELS AND NEW. IN all the novels of the past, This or that classic friend, Heroes and heroines find at last Their Eden at the end ; Their luck may fail at first, yet r.o,......

A Suggestion.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPF.CTATOR.'] Stn,—In connection with Canon MacColl's letter in the Spectator of September 10th, can you find room for the following extract from •`......