29 MAY 1897, page 15

Poetry.

LABUNTlJR ANNI. Ix the old year's distance, I remember well, - How a passing shadow came with each passing bell: Elder generations passing swift away : Yet the shadow came and......

A Cat-story.

[To MI EDITOR or THZ " SPECTATOlf."1 Six,—Thinking the following incident shows great intelli- gence in a cat, I am sending you an account of it. On the second day of my......

Books.

OLIVER CROMWELL'S PLACE IN HISTORY.* • G.) Orem:isles Placs in History. Founded on Biz Lec.urex delivered in the University of Oxford. By Samuel B. Gardiner, D.C.L., Fora's......