13 AUGUST 1892, page 18

An Honest Cuckoo. [to Ram Edrros. Or The "srsor.irroll...

following instance of unusual conduct on the part of this bird may, I think, interest your readers. I copy it from the Bristol Times and Mirror of yesterday :— " Westerman's......

Books.

PROFESSOR NICHOL'S LIFE OF CARLYLE.* PROFESSOR NicHoL has done his work admirably, and with much of the fidelity which Carlyle himself displayed in compres- sing a vast deal of......

Birds Or Dogs?

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The saying respecting the different European languages, attributed to the Emperor Charles V., has quite a new render- ing in your......

Poetry.

THE ELECTORAL PURIST A LA MODE. I DETEST with the whole of my patriot soul The man who would purchase a voter with gold ; For of all wicked things, so to poison the springs Of......

The Poet To The Orator. Catulliis Carm. %luc.

TULLY, of all Rome's progeny Most eloquent that e'er can be Or is or was in history, Fall thanks to you Catullus pays, Worst bard of all that wear her bays, Of all her bards as......