6 AUGUST 1881, page 11

M Summer Coolness In Poetry. Any Years Ago, At A Large

picnic party, held in Wych- wood Forest, in the heat of one of those summers of which we have just had a reminder, everybody was called upon to invent or quote something......

Letters To The Editor.

LONGER LIFE, NOT SLOWER DEATH. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —Dr. Granville wisely calls attention to a danger which besets those whose sanitary labours are directed......