3 OCTOBER 1896, page 16

Poetry.

THE BOOK OF LIFE. THE Book of Life contains no title-page, No argument, no key is found therein That may the scholar's thirst to know assuage And with which he some clue to life......

An Insect Pet.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your readers may possibly be interested in the habits of one of the most curious of European inieets, which I have succeeded in keeping......

Books.

THE CZAR'S BOOK.' Tars magnificent volume is the first of two written by order of the Czar by Prince Ookhtomsky, a naval officer in his suite,. to describe the journey of the......

Church Notices.

[To THE UrT011 Or 2 . 101 "IiIrscriToa."1 Sin,—If you are collecting church notices this is one which (like wine) is the better for being old. The clerk or the curate gave out......

A Correction.

[To THE Barron or Tas "SzscsATON:1 SIE,—By error in my manuscript two of the references to St.. Paul's Epistles in the letter on "Mr. Gladstone on Butler," in the Spectator of......