16 JULY 1881, page 15

Vivisection.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Although I fear our cause has but a slender chance of ob- taining a hearing in Parliament this Session, yet the announce- ment of a Bill......

Books.

A ROMANCE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.* It is difficult to imagine that this book can have any effect that is not mischievous ; and to introduce it into ordinary drawing-rooms......

Mr. Hatch On Early Church Organisation. [to Ms Editor Of

TIM"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your strong eulogy of Mr. Hatch's representations of early Christian organisation, I read as follows :— " After the admirable and scholarly excursus of......