11 MARCH 1871, page 15

"the Author Of Jim Bludso.' "

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.') Sin,—You and some of your readers may like to know that the author of the ballad "Jim Bludsoe," which you quoted on Saturday, is Mr. John......

Poetry.

MILLAIS'S " HUGUENOTS." (TO II., PLAYING ONE OF MENDELSSOHN'S " LIEDER OHNE woars."1 YOUR fav'rite picture rises up before me, Whene'er you play that tune. I see two figures......

Mr. George Hooper On Army Organization.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you allow me, through your columns, to state some con- siderations which should be taken into account by Ministers and by......