1 DECEMBER 1877, page 15

The Mackonochie Case.

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE 4' SPEOTATOR."] tSin,—The case against the Judicial Committee is worse than Dr. Littledale describes, as the following brief summary will show " On......

Mr. Darwin's Reception At Cambridge. [to The Editor Of The

EPEOTATOE,1 Sin,—In your last number you state that when the degree of LL.D. was conferred on Mr. Darwin by the University of Cam- bridge, " ' The missing link '—an ape-like......

Lord Hartington In Scotland.— Disestablishment.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE uSPEOTATOR."1 Srn,—In an article in your last number you speak of " the. marked success" of Lord Hartington's recent visit to Scotland, and of the services......

Books.

MR. FROUDE ON THOMAS A. BECKE'T.* WE confess that we have read the account Mr. Fronde has lately written of the "Life and Times " of Becket with considerable disappointment.......

Poetry.

FONS BANDUSLIE.—(llor. iii., 11) 0 BABBLING Spring! than glass more clear, Worthy of wine, and wreath not sere, To-morrow shall a kid be thine With swelled and sprouting brows......

Vixi Puellis.—(hor. Iii. , 26.)

WE loved of yore, in warfare bold Nor laurelless. Now all must go ; Let this left wall of Venus show The arms, the tuneless lyre of old. Here let them bang, the torches cold,......