14 MAY 1881, page 15

Hobbies.

L ORD BEACONSFIELD tells us in "Endymion" that "life is always interesting, when you have a purpose and live in its fulfilment ;" and with this sentiment we thoroughly agree,......

The Duties Of A Biographer.

(To THH EDITOR OF TIM SFROTATOR.1 Sin, — Will you allow me, without repeating here what I have said elsewhere, to take occasion, from a passing allusion in your columns to my......

Letters To The Editor.

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND THE OATH. [TO TIN EDITOR. OF THU "SPECTATOR."] 8113, — The illegality of the recent proceedings of the House of 'Commons in the Bradlaugh case is, in......

The First Principle Of Toleration.

(To THE EDITOR OF THU "SPECTATOR. "] Sin, — You say, with reference to what I must call the most un- happy attempt to enforce Theism or Deism as a necessary con- dition for the......