20 MARCH 1875, page 15

Books.

MR. PATTLSON'S "ISAAC CASAUBON.". IT may seem but vulgar praise to say of history or biography that it is as interesting as a romance. Nor would it appear to be ap- propriate to......

(to The Editor Of The " Spectator:1 :sut,—the Irish Catholic

whose letter you publish professes to be at a loss to "conceive where Mr. Gladstone can have dis- covered any assurance from the Irish Catholics, not merely that Papal......

Oxford "commemoration."

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE “Bvscrrevoa.1 Silt, — Will you allow me to make one or two remarks upon this subject, by way of explanation of the course adopted by the University......

(to The Editor 07 The " Spectator:1

SIR,—The Spectator's own idea of what is "fairly straight- forward" probably differs enough from "An Irish Catholic's 't to ensure the insertion of the following note of......