12 JANUARY 1889, page 14

Letters To The Editor.

TWO VIEWS OF EMPIRE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—I have no wish to argue the points wherein you criticise my address in Newton Hall on January 1st; but I shall be......

Mr. Bryce On Rank.

M R. PIC KERSGILL, M.P. for Bethnal Green, in a lecture on Shakespeare delivered to his constituents on Tues- day, denounced " rank " as a "fetish," meaning thereby, we presume,......

Liberal 17nionist Policy In Ireland. [to The Editor Of The

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In reviewing Mr. Pellew's instructive book, "Talks in Ireland in 1887," you very pertinently remark that the solution evidently desired by that singularly......

The Indian Congress Seditious Pamphlets.. [to The Editor...

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is no doubt true that, as is pointed out in the Spectator of the 5th inst., Bengalees do not believe their own charges against officials; but it by no......

The House Of Hapsturg.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Mr. Freeman's proposal to call that which is commonly called "the Austrian Empire" by the term "the House of" Austria," would create as......