10 AUGUST 1901, page 15

Books.

THE CHARACTER OF CHARLES U$ MR. OSMUND AIRY has produced a monograph worthy to rank with the best in this distinguished series. The character of Charles II. lends itself readily......

The New Government 'offices.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPROTATOR.1 you allow me a little space to call the attention of educated readers outside the architectural profession to the course which is being......

Poetry.

AVE ATQVE VALE. (THE EMPRESS FREDERICK, BORN NOVEMBER 21ST, 1840; DIED AUGUST 5TH, 1901.) REST, noble Heart, with strength not courage spent; With softly-closing eye and......

Cider And Perry.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Six,—In the short notice of my article in the current number of the Nineteenth Century on " The Cider Industry in France and England " which......