25 OCTOBER 1873, page 13

Poetry.

LIGHT. THE night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one, Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one, Yet......

Lay-absolution.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your remarks on the probability of an uneasy conscience obtaining better " absolution " by " confession " to a layman than to an......

The Uselessness Of Abstract Preaching.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, —If you were the clergyman of the country parish in which you have lived for the last ten years, you would not condemn abstract......

Books.

MR. JOHN STUART MILL'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.* THAT this curious volume delineates, on the whole, a man marked by the most earnest devotion to human good, and the widest in- tellectual......

A Quaint Epitaph.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—The accompanying epitaph, copied by me from a monu- ment in the porch of St. Peter's Church, Wolverhampton, is not the least curious......

" The Sacred Heart."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] observe by a letter in the Spectator of September 27, from " The Editor of the Month," that the promoters of the Pilgrimages to......

Church Patronage.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Srn,—I rejoice to see that one of the reforms on which Mr. Bright dwelt last night with most feeling was that which would put an end to the......