18 JULY 1874, page 15

The Gladiatorial Combats.

[To TER EDTTOR OF THE "EPECTATOR.1 Sra,—In your leading article on the Hanley brutality, you give currency to the popular idea that the turning the thumb down- ward was the......

1.118, Scotch Church Bill [to Ras Editor Of The...

Srs,—Your advocacy of common fair-play as between sect anew sect in Scotland over this unlucky. Bill deserves the thanks of all Scotchmen. It deserves them, but nevertheless.......

Poetry.

ON READING DORA WORDSWORTH'S RECOLLECTIONS OF A. JOURNEY IN SCOTLAND IN 1803, WITH HER BROTHER AND COLERIDGE. I CLOSE the book, I shut my eyes, I see the Three before me rise,—......

Books.

MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS.* SOME years have elapsed since Mr. Hosack published the first volume of his masterly defence of Mary Queen of Scots. The patient labour bestowed upon that......

The Ninth Commandment.

[TO TRH EDITOR OF THE " spy:rums:1 ,Sin,—Though having no pretensions to be a Hebrew scholar, I know that the preposition used in the Ninth Commandment has a great variety of......