28 FEBRUARY 1891, page 18

"retraction" Or "retractation " ?

[To THE EDITOR OF TIIE " SFECTATOIt."] Sin,—Thrice (in p. 279) you speak of " retractation," meaning, not the revising, but the retracting of a statement made, Are we obliged......

Books.

MR. LELAND ON GIPSY SORCERY.t THIS is a curious book; and precisely the kind of book to which we should go to find out the true meaning of the word "superstition." Mr. Leland......

Poetry.

SAUL ON MOUNT OLIVET.* [After a day spent in persecuting the Church of Christ ] So one day more of bitterness had spent Saul, and the night, the solemn night, came on, Grateful......