16 NOVEMBER 1889, page 12

Irish "wakes."

rpHE custom of " waking " the dead in Ireland, though by no means existing in its ancient glory and vigour, still obtains in a modified and shorn form in many country dis-......

Letters To The Editor.

CHRISTIANS IN THE OTTOMAN SERVICE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIE, — May I be allowed to correct one rather important but not uncommon error into which the writer of......

An English Catholic On Ireland.

THE following letter from an English Catholic has been sent to us for publication :— "DEAR —,—I return you 'C. ' letter. Certainly the posi- tion of things in Ireland is very......

The Population. Of The United States.

[To THE EDITOR 01 , THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIE,—In the Spectator's courteous notice of my article in the Nineteenth Century on "The Roman Catholic Church in America," the reviewer......