11 AUGUST 1888, page 17

[to The Editor Of The "spectator. ")

Six,—Your sleepless correspondents are looking very far afield for their remedy, which lies under their own hand, and is even now singing on their own kitchen hob. For......

Poetry.

PRIMROSE LEAVES. NOT always with the Spring its joyaunce closes; It is Midsummer, love, and while I pass Among forgotten things,— Dry oak-sprays, faded mosses, woodbine......

Books.

REGINALD POLE.* DR. LEE is one of the moving spirits in the Order of Corporate Reunion, which has for its object the reunion of the English Church with Rome ; and it is,......

Sleeplessness.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] • SIR,—In my own case, occasional difficulty in going to sleep arises from one of two distinct causes. The first is an over- excited brain,......

Lord Spencer And Mr. O'brien.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I have read with the utmost pain your remarks on Mr. O'Brien's replies in cross-examination at the Cork Assizes. Had these remarks been......

Pope's Bicentenary.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—No one can reasonably find fault with your estimate of the genius of Pope. He may be lacking in splendour of colour and in imaginative......

A Branch Of Luxes.

A BRANCH of lilies, with their stems upright And crowding heavenward, lies in the moonlight, With leaves that are not shut at all by night. Fulfilled of peace and passion to the......