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Books.

MR. MORISON'S " GIBBON."* Jr must be very carping criticism indeed which could welcome otherwise than warmly Mr. J. C. Morison's sketch of England's greatest historian. For......

Undiluted Ultramontanisal

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-1 wish to strengthen my position by a few extracts from a great living theologian, Dr. Newman. In my letter to you last week, I......

Poetry.

THE COMRADES. (FROM THE GERMAN OF OHLAND.j I HAD a mate in the regiment, A better man ne'er stepped. The bugle blew to battle, And 'mid the roar and rattle One step, one heart,......

Professor Hieckel.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—We are told in the Times of the 30th ult. that Professor ilteckel, of Jena, in the speech he delivered at Paris, where a banquet in his......