27 AUGUST 1904, page 17

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SIR,—Your correspondent with the above signature in the Spectator of August 13th describes himself as " a small, dark, spare man of Celtic or Brythonic origin," and evidently......

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Melon GIBBONS is one of the many adventurous English• men over whom Cecil Rhodes threw the spell of his dreams. The glamour of the North, that mysterious point of the compass......

Up, To The Many-miled Karoo, Along The Spreading,...

Starlit, or 'neath the burning blue—. Day after day, and month by month, Safely the mail-train passes thro'. A vital pulse, replenishing, From the whole world beyond the waves,......

Sir,—in The Spectator Of August 13th Occurs A Review Of

Mr. Horace G. Hutchinson's work on " Fishing," wherein it is stated that "Mr. A. Jardine gives the necessary instructions about tackle and method" (pike fishing). " He does the......