8 SEPTEMBER 1900, page 16

Poetry.

DAWN AMONG THE ALPS. A THOUSAND and ten thousand years ago So softly poised the golden-footed day On you high-lifted minarets of snow, That crown the wrinkled glaciers chill and......

A Meteorological Rabbit.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SrR,—Recently I spent a holiday in Unst, the northmost of the Shetland Islands, and went to see the Muckle Flugga lighthouse, which stands on......

• Nietzsciie's Morality.

(To TIIE EDITOR OH THE "SescrAvon.1 SIR,—It is a pity that so many inaccuracies about important matters should appear even in high-class periodicals. A case in point is the......

Books.

SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE.* THE book known as The Travels of Sir John. Mandeville is a real book of the Middle Ages, credulous, imaginative, and entertaining. It is legend rather than......