Poetry.
TO THE RACE. YOUR name is large on every sea, And your keels have underscored The title deed, That the world may heed Row the deed runs, word for word: IsTo land so far, no pass......
Bloodhounds:
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR...1 Sin,—In your able article on the above subject in the Spectator of October 8th you omit to mention that hounds were used by Isis to search......
Books.
MONTAIGNE.* MONTAIGNE was the first, and is still the greatest, of modern essayists. He had his predecessors in antiquity, and the Plutarch, whom he admired so loyally and......
Heron And Rooks.
[To THE EDITOR or Tau " SrEoraToE."1 SIR,—The annoyance of the heron is an old, bad habit of rooks. The conclusion I have come to is that they try to make him disgorge his cargo......