21 DECEMBER 1872, page 15

The Queensland Slave Trade.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Long before this reaches you, the English papers will, I Cope, have republished the fall details of the two voyages of the Carl. I do......

Poetry.

ON A GAVOTTE OF BACH'S. A GIANT ' S dance—with measured tread He comes o'er foes victorious ; With battle-axe swung round his head, Blood-stained by warfare glorious. He......

The Agricultural Labourers And The Church. [to The Editor Of

THE "Spat:mews:] your article upon the meeting in Exeter Hall, you lament that " not a single minister of either the National or Noncon- formist Churches was there to take up......

Books.

MR. GREG'S ENIGMAS OF LIFE, MR. GREG has never written a more eloquent book than this, and never any so full of deep religious feeling, in spite of its deep underlying doubt ;......

Oxford, December Ilvu, 1872.

FULL many a deed of petty bigotry, Oxford! unthinking men have wrought in thee,— Gladstone rejected,—Jowett of his fee For years deprived on charge of heresy And last, a......

The Irisei University Question.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " EPSOTATOR.1 Sin,—Allow me to thank you, even so late as this, for your- thoroughly liberal article on the Irish University question in your number of......

Touting Money-lenders.

[TO THE Emma OF THE "SPECTATOR'] SIR,—Being known for an M.P. would not have protected Mr. Goschen from touting money-lenders. Just the reverse, for I have had several......