Fascination By Snakes.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] SIR,—I was much interested in a subject recently referred to in your columns,—viz., the snake's power of fascinating its victims. Several......
The Humour Of Mark Twain.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—I note that a dinner was given to Mark Twain by the Authors' Club on Monday night. I have the greatest admiration for Mark Twain as a......
Sea Birds And Cliff-climbing In Yorkshire.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] hope your love of fair dealing will allow me to protest against a practice that is but too common. I mean that of informing the outside......
Poetry.
• MINE ENEMY. ONCE in my pride I judged a man, With eyes austere I looked him through, I said, " Here failed he,"—span by span I measured all his faults anew. And thenceforth......
Books.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF NIETZSCHE. , WE have at length translations, more or less satisfactory, of the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche. The translations in * (1.) A Genealogy of......
Naval Engineers And Water-tube Boilers.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIB,—I am glad to see the letter of your correspondent " X." in the Spectator of Jane 10th, but do not wholly agree that the difficulty in......