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Poetry.

TO M. LEON GAMBETTA, LATE MINISTER OF WAR OF THE GOVERNMENT OP NATIONAL DEFENCE. FALLEN thou art not, though the hopeless crowd Who worship crowns and empire cry thee down ;......

Books.

DR. MAUDSLEY ON BODY AND MIND.* Dn. MAUDSLEY has written a very interesting little volume, which we need hardly say that, in its physiological aspects, we should not presume to......

General Butler's Resolution.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—May I call attention to a slight technical mistake in your article on "Undignified Democracies." The resolution of " cordial welcome to......

The Apocrypha.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—If " Anglicanus " had read my letter before answering it, he would have seen that I expressly admitted Tobit and Judith to be unsuited......

Mr. Trench.—an Explanation.

[To THE EDITOE OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR—As you have commented severely upon an adventure de- scribed in my article on Kerry, I must ask you, in justice to Mr. Trench, to......