3 FEBRUARY 1900, page 16

Books.

THE UNITED KINGDOM.* THERE are many methods of writing history, and the only true way will (we hope) never be discovered. Since Lucian wrote his famous satire, wits and scholars......

Our Future Army.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Considering the number of boys who, after leaving school, loaf idly about the country; considering that they cannot enter the Army until......

Poetry.

IN MEMORIAM. "H. P. P."—" F. M."—"J. W. A. C." (Killed in Africa). WHEN I lie dying in my bed, A grief to wife, and child, and friend,— How I shall grudge you gallant dead Your......