22 NOVEMBER 1873, Page 15

MR. BOURDILLON'S "LIGHT."

(TO THE EDITOR OF THB " SPBOTATOR.")

&Ili—May I offer a " reply " in prose to Mr. Bourdillon's poem? "The bright world" has two hemispheres. If "the light of " some very charming poetry has " died " out of the pages of the Haileyburian, it has re-appeared on a wider horizon in the columns of the Spectator, and the world has certainly lost nothing in