29 OCTOBER 1898, page 18

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......