15 APRIL 1876, page 15

The Latest Theories About Bacon.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your notice of Mr. Spedding's paper on " The Latest Theories about Bacon," you observe that I am " smashed " and made "slightly......

The Burials Question.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT011.1 SIR,—Mr. MacColl writes so confidently, that people who do not know better may be misled by his assertions. He may not know -of 'a single......

Flogging In Barbados.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—You may, perhaps, not be aware that all flogging in Bar- bados takes place under the direct sanction of her Majesty's Governor ; he has......

Royal Titles Bill.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Perhaps you will allow one of your readers of many years' standing to send you a fact in illustration of the general apathy felt by the......

Lord Macaulay's Religion.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE"SPECTATOR:'] SIR,—In your notice of "The Life of Lord Macaulay," on the 8th inst., you refer to Mr. Trevelyan's reticence in regard to Lord Macaulay's......

Books.

THE DILEMMA.* THE story of the Indian Mutiny, or at least an admirable sample of the indefinite number of individual stories, tragic, tragi-comic, dramatic, and pathetic, of......

Poetry.

AFTER THE IRISH SONG, " I ONCE LOVED A BOY." (PETRIE'S COLLECTION.) I ONCE loved a boy, and a bould Irish boy, Far away in the hills of the West ; Oh ! the love of that boy was......