21 DECEMBER 1878, page 12

Poetry.

COMPANIONS. Slum: farewell to Sorrow : Give to Joy good-morrow : And charge him to continue A quiet reign within you. Smile farewell to Gladness : Take the hand of Sadness, And......

The War And The Church.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sie,—May I be permitted to call attention, through your columns, to the great and pressing need of some prayer for peace, which may be used......

The Paris Commune Of 1871.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In addition to the work mentioned by your correspondent in last Saturday's issue, there are two recent and important Histories of the......

"a Worldlet Within The World." [to The Editor Of The

"SPECTATOR."] Ste,—The story of a society where money and misery are un- known, and great crime almost impossible, comes to a nine- teenth-century Englishman like the......

Art.

THE ART OF EUROPE.—IV. (ENGLAND.) SIXTY or seventy years ago two influences were doing their best to ruin the Art of England, and these were the influence of the romantic and......

Bismarck's Feeling Towards The English.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—Your reviewer of Dr. Busch's book on "Bismarck und Seine Leute " translates the word " widerwiirtig " into "disgust- ing," against which......