20 NOVEMBER 1897, page 32

Poetry.

HER DEAD BIRD. [On turning out for repair the inside of a church organ in a high gallery there was found, covered with dust, a little cardboard box, shaped like a coffin and......

Sir William Harcourt And Mr. Chamberlain.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—You have lately alluded to the works of Elizabeth Turner. Do you remember the following poem P It seems prophetic of the anger caused......

Books.

JAPANESE MYSTICISM.* JAPANESE mysticism has a charm for the Western mind which does not belong in anything like the same degree to the mysticism of the rest of the Eastern......

A Feature Of The Day.

I SEEM to like the vagueness of the day Which hesitates its meaning to express, And qualifies whate'er it seems to say By " more or less." It ministers to life's smooth, easy......