29 JULY 1893, page 17

Todd's Parliamentary Government In The Colonies.

[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE 66 SPEOTAT3E.'] SIR,—With reference to the remark in the Spectator of July 22nd, we are glad to say that we have a new edition of " Todd's Parliamentary......

"from Whose Bourne."

[To Tan EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, I have been fairly successful up to date in resisting the- temptation of attempting to put a critic right where it seemed to me he was......

Cockroaches And Hellebore.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE 6 ' SPEOTATOR."] SIR,—The tastes even of cockroaches must differ. Our English variety here have asked for no culinary assistance, but have devoured the......

Books.

THE imagination of Goethe pictured the ice-age. " If a great cold," said he, " covered the larger part of North Germany with ice, when the water was of the depth of 1,000 ft.,......