10 JANUARY 1885, page 14

Mrs. Fenwick Miller And Dr. Martineau.

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPEC rATost." I SIR, — In commenting last week on Dr. Martineau's letter to the Daily News about my " Life " of Miss Harriet Martineau, you use these......

Poetry.

A DECEMBER ROSE. FAIR pilgrim rose ! budding is spite of date In homely gardens where the sunlight falls, Breeze-haunted by a tune articulate In perfect melody on green-clad......

Sonnet.—" A Memory Of May."

• Could aught arrest the rushing wings of Time, Or fix his shadow on th dial's face, This were the day supreme, the perfect place, Winaudermere, iu May's eternal prime. So......

Art.

THE GROSVENOR GALLERY.—I. GAINSBOROUGH. TILE present exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery of Gainsborough's paintings is very incomplete, and therefore comparatively......