26 MARCH 1898, page 16

" Hoaie, Sweet Home " : A Cat's Appeal.

[To THZ EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In consequence of the failing health of my owner, who is giving up housekeeping on account of impending blindness, I venture to ask you......

Books.

MAX MULLER'S RECOLLECTIONS.* THIS book, the fruit of enforced leisure, as its author tells us,. is a charming mass of gossip about people whom Professor Max Muller has known......

Poetry.

THE GRAVE OF MIRY O'CONOR. [LAST HIGH-KING OF IRELAND, BURIED 1198 AT BT. FSCHIN'S MONASTERY, CORO, CO. MAY0.] CLEAR as air, the floods of Corrib Evermore their old, unchanging......

The Hut-tax In Sierra Leone.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR "1 SIR,—There are few persons in this country who take an intelligent interest in the West African natives, fewer still who have an intimate......