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Books.

THE SHADOW OF A DREAM.* BETTER justice will be meted to this latest problem of Bostonian society by Mr. Howells, if we dissociate it from his previous successes, and judge what......

"rollicking Ireland."

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR, — Will you allow me, as an Irishwoman, to express my gratitude to the writer of the article called " Rollicking Ireland" P It is written......

Cats As Humorists.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ] SIR,—After reading your article on " Cats as Humorists," I am obliged to send you an anecdote of mine, a long-haired, black Persian. Living......

Anglo-irish Idioms.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Are we to take as seriously made, the statement in your review of Dr. Joyce's book on the Anglo-Irish dialect (August 2nd), that Irish......

[*.* We Are Requested To State That In The Rev.

F. 0. Morris's letter on " The Rook," published in the Spectator of August 2nd, the information stated to have been received by him from Mrs. Cole, of Condover Hall, near......

The Duke Of Wellington And The Toad.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your issue of August 9th, I notice that a gentleman " called" F. 0. Morris indignantly repudiates the statement that " some one in a......