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Books.

A GOSSIP ABOUT CHINA.* WiT11 a new book about china on our table, we feel at once on the holiday side of life. What is more delightful than to have a mania, and what is more......

The Government Banking Act.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR.1 SIR,—Since you inserted my second letter on the Government Banking Bill, on May 17th last, that much-vaunted measure has been so altered and......

A Criticism On Mr. Graves.

[To Tam EDITOR 0E SPECTATOR.''] SIR,—Thero is a blemish which spoils the joyous and thoroughly Irish lines of Mr. Alfred Graves, on "Herring is King," pub- lished in the last......