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Peasant Proprietors In Ireland.

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—About a week ago, Mr. Godley, Secretary to the Irish Church Commissioners, wrote to a Dublin paper (the Irish Times) to say that out......

"a Beleaguered City."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] 'SIR,—Are there, or are there not, two Mrs. Oliphants ? Or is "A Beleaguered City" written by the accomplished authoress of the " Chronicles......

The Faculty Of Visual Representation.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—The following extract from a letter of Professor James Elliot, of Goldielands, will probably interest many of your readers. The Professor......

Mr. Foster's "peerage"

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] course it is not your practice to take notice of replies to reviews of books appearing in your columns, but there is one statement of the......

Books.

RUSSIA BEFORE THE WAR.* THE author of this book is entitled to the praise of being an able and a cultivated writer, and of possessing a knowledge of his subject,—which, granting......

Ox-pl013 Ghing.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.] Sur.,—Eight hundred feet above the sea, among the granite• hills of Aberdeenshire, I saw, for the first time in Scotland, an ox at plough. I......