4 OCTOBER 1890, page 12

Talking Birds.

T HERE is a marked distinction between the call-notes of birds, which are hereditary and invariable, and the song, which is an accomplishment, the result of effort and practice,......

Public Dinners.

D OUBTLESS it is safer to quarrel with a public dinner than with one's private bread-and-butter; but even in the case of the former, it would perhaps be better for the guest to......