25 APRIL 1885, page 13

Marriages Of Affinity.

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR?'] SIR, — I agree with the Bishop of Oxford and yourself in the position that the legalisation of all marriages of affinity would Logically......

The Economic Effect Of War.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—May I point out to you what is evidently a slip of the pen in the article on "The Economic Effect of War" in your last issue ? The error......

St. Monacella's La.m.bs.

[TO THE EDITOR OF TUB " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—Tennant, in one of his tours in Wales, paid his devotions to the shrine of St. Monacella, "or, as the Welsh style her, Melangoll."......

Poetry.

ROME. WHERE are the footprints of the ancient dead Who dwelt and wrought in Rome and made mankind ? What memory have the mighty left behind In this imperial place where they......