10 JANUARY 1880, page 14

Poetry.

IRISH LAMENTATION. COLD, dark, and dumb lies my boy on his bed ; Cold, dark, and silent the night dews are shed; Hot, swift, and fierce fall my tears for the dead ! His......

Letters To The Editor.

DR. HANCOCK ON IRELAND. [TO THE EDITOR OF TEl SPECTATOR:1 SIR,-Thirty years ago, when he was Professor of Political Economy in the University of Dublin, Dr. Hancock published a......

Books.

THE FAC-SIMILE OF THE CODEX ALEX.A.NDRINUS. * " Iv Fielding's Parson Adams were now alive, and not quite at - desperate grips with poverty, we may feel sure that he would, have......

Irish Tenants-at-will.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SLa,—What is the practical remedy for the state of things described in Mr. Shepherd's letter, in your issue of December 27th? Not, I think,......

Fra_nce And The Pillars Of Hercules.

(TO TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sr,—In your last week's article on the change of Government in France, you tell us that "to say that M. de Freycinet's Government are the......