Poetry.

INSATIATE Death ! why haste to snatch The young, the brave, the half-Divine? Why thus anticipate thy dues ? A little while—and all are thine ! A. G.......

Necessitous Ladies' Holiday Fund.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—You have been good enough to allow me to appeal in your columns for the last two years past for contributions towards a fund for......

Music.

"BORIS GODOUNOW." THE evolution and rapid development of the Russian school is one of the wonders of the history of music. Forty years. ago the world only knew of the existence......

The Garden.

IN spring She made a garden, near an orchard on a hill, And half that garden's Providence, the rest is all Free Will. It's Providence that plants the flowers, pure luck that......

Erratum.—we Regret That The Following Item Was Accident-...

from the Specification attached to the article upon " A Model Black Weather-Board Cottage" in our last issue:— "TILER Roof. — Cover the roof with Major's Patent Roman tiles,......

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