A Bird-story.

[To TEE EDITOR or TIM " SPECTATOIL"j SIR. —When I was residing at Gilean Aigas, on the Beanly, in 1854, a woodcock, carrying a young one with its legs hanging _down, flew slowly......

Pacata Hibernia.

" IRELAND at peace." So under the fierce Queen . Men closed the cruel record. 0 strange peace Peace by division, peace by the poisoned cup, Peace by gaunt famine, peace by fire......

Letters To Tiie Editor.

THE POSITION OF MR. RHODES IN SOUTH AFRICA. [To THI EDITOR or TILT "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—May I call attention to a matter connected with administration in South Africa which I......

Books.

LORD CROMER.* THAT Lord Cromer deserves, or shall we say must not be ex- cused, the infliction of, a biography daring his lifetime, cannot reasonably be denied. The work he has......

A Cat-story.

[To THE ELITOK OF THE " 6PFCTATOR "J SIR,—A cat in a household with which I am acquainted has lately shown remarkable sympathy as well as intelligence in regard to a dog kept in......

Poetry.

INSORI PrION AT BT. MARY'S ABBEY, WINDERMERE, THE RESIDENCE OF F. PIERREI'ONT BARNARD, ESQ GUEST of this fair abode, before thee rise No summits vast, that icily remote Cannot......