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Letters To The Editor.

THE BATTLE OF THE LANGUAGES. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTITOR.1 SIR,—The question of the influence of parentage in what you term the " Battle of Languages " is merely another......

A Modern Stoic.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Will you allow a disciple of Comte a few words in reply to your remarks last week upon the weakness of Positivism when confronted with......

The Provincial History Of England.

cx11.—THE WELSH MARCHES :--SHROPSHIRE.-SINCE THE SAXON CONQUEST. T HE history of the conquest of Shropshire by the Saxons is entirely unknown. When it was accomplished, and......