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Books.

LORD STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE.* THE Life of Stratford Canning, based on piles of authentic' materials, and well composed in nervous English by Mr Stanley Lane-Poole, will be......

Poetry.

HYMN FROM THE PROLOGUE TO "FAUST." SONOROUS speeds the Sun through heaven, 'Mid music of his sister-spheres, And following still the mandate given, With march of thunder leads......

Instinct Or Reason?

[To THZ EDITOR OF THE " BYRCTATOR."1 SIR,—The following, received from a correspondent writing from Dieppe, is interesting in its way, and bears upon the subject of your recent......

Vegetarian Drunkards.

[To THE EDITOR or amyl " SPUTATOR."1 SIE,—I fail to make out what particular class of Indian vegetarians you mean, when you say, in the Spectator of October 6th :—" The......

The Windows Were Wide All Day; The Musks And The

pinks smell sweet In the boxes over the way. The night is a night of June, When the summer flowers are born, And, above, a sickle moon Hangs over the coming corn. No sigh of the......