12 JANUARY 1895, page 14

Father Thomas Burke. [to The Editor Or The "spectator."]...

reviewer of the Life of Father Tom Burke, in the Spectator of January 5th, seeks to convey an impression of my book so utterly opposite to that of the man, of all others, who,......

Art.

THE OLD MASTERS. THE Academy wears her "winter garment of repentance," and we have seldom seen her dressed in better taste. There , are few of the distressing patches that are......

The Dry-rot Of States.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your inquiry into the causes of the corruption which is undermining so many States, you ignore the one anti- septic which appears to......

A Dog-story.

[To THE EDITOR Of THZ " SPECTATOR:9 AR,—I was greatly interested in the story of the generosity shown by a dog, as related in the Spectator of January 5th, because of a similar......

Intemperance In Tea. [to The Editor Of The "spectator."]...

seventeenth century seems, occasionally, to have excelled the nineteenth in the immoderate use of tea, though chiefly perhaps as a medicine. When tea first came into fashion in......