3 JULY 1897, page 26

Poetry.

THE CAPTIVE'S DREAM. FROM birth we have his captives been : For freedom, vain to strive ! This is our chamber: windows five Look forth on his demesne; And each to its own......

A Dog-story.

[To TEE EDITOR Or TEE "SPECTATOR. "] SIB,—One morning, not long ago, my sister went to see a friend, who lived a mile or so from the rectory, taking with her our little brown......

The Illiterate Undergraduate.

[TO TER EDITOR Or THE " STRETATOR:] SIE,—In connection with the article in the Spectator of June 26th on "The Illiterate Undergraduate," the charge is by no means new. In......

The Jubilee Honours.

[TO THE EDITOR Or TEl "SPECTATOR. "] snt, — Yon condemn the recent distribution of honours on the- ground that the occasion of her Majesty's Jubilee was not utilised to decorate......

Books.

A PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENCE OF THEISM.* ANT one who has met with either of Professor James's treatises upon psychology is not likely to let the grass grow under his feet before......