17 AUGUST 1889, page 17

Books.

THE BISHOP OF DURHAM ON "SUPERNATURAL RELIGION."* " THE author of Supernatural Religion as distinct from his work," says Dr. Lightfoot, in his preface to these masterly Essays,......

[s,* The Roman Catholic Claims.—we Have Received Two...

from the Rev. Mr. Richardson and from our former correspondent, "S. T. P.," on this subject, which we are compelled to defer till next week, when we shall publish them with a......

The Electric Light In Shanghai.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:'] SIB,—In your review of M. de Windt's book, you seem puzzled by a very singular misconception. " Shanghai," you say, " the dirtiest city in......

[* P * Eaa.artrx.—in Mr. Alfred Austin's Poem On "a...

Birthday," in our last number (p. 175), in the first line in the second paragraph, the word " interfered " should be " interpret," and it should run, " Interpret then the......

Students' Blunders. [to The Editor Op The "spectator. "]...

iguntnr," all students' blunders must fall more or less flat. The following, however, seem to be not without merit, and, veiled as they are in "the decent obscurity of a dead......

Sun-dial Inscriptions.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The sun-dial inscription, " Pereunt et imputantnr," quoted by Canon Hopkins in the Spectator of August 10th, is also to be seen on a......

The Muzzling Order. [to The Editor Of The " Spectator. " ]

Sin,—You were good enough, in the Spectator of August 3rd, to publish a letter of mine on the muzzling order. I propose now to make a few remarks upon another phase of the......

[to The Editor Of The "spectator. " ] Sir, —in A Recent...

examination, I underlined for com- ment " harpy-footed," in Milton's line, " Thither by harpy- footed furies hard " (" Paradise Lost," ii., 596). One ingenious student......