18 MARCH 1876, page 15

Poetry.

TO IMMORTAL MUSIC. NAY, Music, thou art young ! Not long ago Thou hadst but rounded to thy perfect form, Thy virginal, sweet heart was hardly warm, And little knew of passion or......

[to The Editor Of The "spectator.")

a letter in your last issue, Mr. Portal endeavours to impale Dissenters on one of the horns of a terrible dilemma. I -do not think that they will accept either. It is as......

The Queen's Title.

[TO rim EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—" Colonies" has I know not what of an unheraldic sound, but it is impossible to feel that Canada and Australia are included in "the......

Books.

MARY TUDOR. Mn. AUBREY DE VERE has done well to republish his father's fine, but nearly still-born, plays, at a time when Mr. Tennyson's drama of Queen Mary has called attention......

The Burials Bill

(To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.") Sin,—What more instructive comment on the now, alas! shelved Burials Bill could there be than the touching spectacle in West- minster Abbey on......