14 DECEMBER 1889, page 16

The Heroic Pit-boys.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I hope that you will be able to find room to reprint a fine epigram by Professor Lewis Campbell (published in the• Classical Review),......

Books.

CAPTAIN TROTTER'S " LORD DALHOUSIE." IT is not perhaps possible, certainly it is not possible except to men more brilliant than Captain Trotter pretends to be, to write a......

A Village Library.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " FPECTATOR:] you allow me to express my sincere thanks to those who anonymously sent me books in answer to my letter in the Spectator of November 30th P I......

The Morality Of War.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your notice of the memoirs of Henry Richard, in the Spectator of December 7th, you speak of the view that war is wrong, as being......

Whites And Blacks In America.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." I SIR,—As an Englishman, loving his native land, but who has made his cause one with those who live and work under the " Stars and Stripes,"......

The Envoy At Lisbon.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—Allow me to indicate an error in the Spectator of November 30th. Her Majesty's Envoy at Lisbon (my father) is Mr. Petre, not Mr.......

Fanny Burne Y And Lord Macaulay.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Will you allow one who owes to Macaulay her long and affectionate intimacy with " Fanny Burney and her Friends," to say a word in......

The Tithe Question.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Your suggestions for settling the Tithe controversy seem to me to leave the main difficulty untouched. At the bottom of the opposition......