25 FEBRUARY 1888, page 14

Nickname S.

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] Sut,—Your reviewer, in his notice of Mr. Frey's book last week, gave us some amusing instances of nicknames. Amongst them occurred that of......

Poetry.

TO THE RULERS OF IRELAND. CHAMPIONS of Law and Freedom truly named, Not that ill Spirit which with lying show Of heavenly light conceals the lurid glow Of Hell's own fires,......

Turner's Lobster-salad.

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I see that in your article upon "Mr. Frith's Autobio- graphy," you quote his anecdotes of Turner the artist. One of them has......

Principal Cairns.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—By a slip of the pen, or a momentary lapse of memory, your reviewer, in his notice of two volumes of the "Present-Day Tracts," in your......

Art.

A JAPANESE EXHIBITION.* IT is quite impossible that any collection of Japanese art which is worth the name should be wholly uninteresting ; so much may be taken for granted,—the......

The "book Of The Vyne."

lTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Stn,—Permit me to point out that Mr. Chaloner W. Chute does not, in his charming "Book of the Vyne," claim descent from Mr. Speaker Chute in......