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Poetry.

THEO-JINGO-MACHIA. "Ye cannot serve God and Jingo." LIVERPOOL, SOUTHWARK, 1880. MusD, if on heights divine thou lingerest still, And leavest Helicon for Primrose Hill, If even......

Books.

MR. GOSSE'S NEW POEMS.* Six years have passed since we noticed Mr. Gorse's earliest volume of poetry in the columns of the Spectator. " On Viol and Flute" was a work of promise,......

"russia Before The War." (to The Editor Of The Sescrator.-1

SIR,—In your criticism of "Russia Before the War," you have- made a blunder, not unnatural to one not personally intimate- 'with Russian life. On page 208 you find fault with......

Lab Arctic Expedition.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] :Sia,—My attention was called a few days ago to the paragraph in your edition of January 31st, in reference to the Arctic Expe- dition, and I......

St. Kilda.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THR "SPECTATOR."] you kindly allow me, as mandatory of the people of St. Kilda, to call public attention to the neglected condition of that island, and to say......