2 MARCH 1878, page 15

The Burials Bill.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Longissima ecenw apes homini," yet one human hope there is which dies harder than that of being asked to Stay dinner,- " He thought of......

Poetry.

A STRANGE SINGER. JOY'S the shyest bird Mortal ever heard ; Listen rapt and silent when he sings ; Do not seek to see, Lest the vision be But a flutter of departing wings.......

The Hereditary Transmission Of Physical Defects.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR") Sin,—In the Spectator of the 16th ult. you express a doubt whether short-sight tends to become hereditary, and give as one of your reasons......

Books.

VENEZUELA.* MR. SPENCE'S book comes appropriately after Mr. Brown's British Guiana, to instruct us respecting an equally little known country which borders the colony whose......