31 AUGUST 1912, page 15

Lady Shelley.

[To ERR EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—You recently reviewed the Memoirs of Lady Shelley, and perhaps the following extract from Sir Walter's first letter to "the long......

Stevenson's House At Monterey.

[TO THE EDITOR OP TUE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—America has so few landmarks of literary distinction that it is to be hoped she will not let the resting place of so rare a bird of......

" G Did Arello Guidarelli."

[To THE EDITOR OE THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR, —Many of your readers will have been interested in the letters printed in your issue of August 10th on Guidarello Guidarelli. I wonder......

Rto The Editor Of The "spectator."]

Sin,—The name of Guidarellns Guidarellius is mentioned in " Hist. Ravennatum," lib. vii., p. 625 (Graevius Thesaurus Hist. Ital.) somewhat quaintly as to date : " Sub id tempus......

Poetry.

BLACK WINGS. SEXTONS of the Overland ! Buriers of the dead, Where graves are lone and shallow and winding sheets are red ! Wardens of the wagon track, watchers by the creek,......

Books.

POLLS OF THE PEOPLE IN THE STATES OF THE UNION.* IN addition to example, America is sending us much precept upon "direct" legislation. The National Municipal League has issued a......

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