15 JANUARY 1881, page 13

Lord Caiinativon And Mr. Bright.

[To 1HE E CTTOR OF THE " SPECTATOR "] SIR,—In reading y o ar article, "Lord Carnarvon andMr.Bright," I observe that in a quotation you give from Mr. Bright's speech of November......

" The Nine Days' Queen."

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] 'SIR,—A fortnight ago I received an astonished inquiry from a 'friend at a distance as to the meaning of a play being announced for......

Poetry.

THE SAY-LANDLORDS. (BY ONE OF THEIR DIBCONTINTED TININTS. AN APOLOGUE.) THERE once was an island,—no needs to say where, 1 Twas surrounded with wather, as many more are,— But,......

Female Suffrage.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " BPEOTATOR..1 Sir, I trust that you will not deny my claim to the title of " a plain man," if I venture to point out that two of the supposed "......

Books.

SANDYS' " BACCHAE " OF EURIPIDES.* TUE genius of Euripides will doubtless long continue to bo to critics a fruitful subject of comparison with that of the two other great......