11 MAY 1878, page 17

The Burials Bill

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Your correspondent, "J. C. W." and other friends of Mr. Osborne Morgan's Bill seem very anxious to "point to Scotland, for proof of the......

"history Of The Thirty Years' Peace."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—The introduction to Miss Martineau's "History of the Thirty Years' Peace" was written by herself—not, as your reviewer states, by......

Ploughing With Oxen.

[TO THIS EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—I have read with much interest the letter in the Spectator on oxen-ploughing in England, and think it may be worth -while telling what......

Mr. Allingham's Poems.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—In the notice (May 4th) of my "Songs, Ballads, and Stories," your reviewer inadvertently mutilates and makes unin- telligible the only......

The Oxford Election.

[TO TER EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The chances, never too great, of returning a Liberal to Parliament for the University of Oxford, are doubtless diminished at the present......

Art.

TilE ROYAL ACADEMY. [FIRST NOTICE.) IT is an ungracious task to find fault, and especially to find fault with a well-established society, whose aims, theoretically at least, are......