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Books.

MR. LECKY'S NEW VOLUMES.* [FIRST NOTICE.] MR. LECKY need not have apologised, as he implicitly does in his preface, for the size of these two volumes, which are devoted......

Parsons And Guide-posts.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—In your review of October 11th of Mr. Page's " Exmoor," you quote an anecdote given by him concerning " parsons " and " guide-posts "......

Mr. Monkhouse And Mrs. Barbauld.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR...1 Sin,—In your review of Mr. Cosmo Monkhouse's volume of poems, " Corn and Poppies," you quote three stanzas from a poem called " Any Soul to......

The Song Of The Wild Canary.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — In the Spectator of October 4th is an attiele on " Talking Birds," in which I was surprised to read the following statement :—" The......