27 DECEMBER 1890, page 17

Books.

A FRENCHWOMAN'S TRAVELS IN IRELAND.* WE should advise the reader who wants to know something of Ireland without entering into the storm of her politics, to learn French at once,......

Poetry.

THE OLD YEAR. On, for the year dying in the dark December weather, The year that we loved so, the year that was so fair, Can we not save it, ere it passes altogether, The year......

Cardinal Newman Memorial Fund.

[To THY EDITOR 01 THE " BPSCTATOB." J SIR,—As the support accorded to the third object of the fund originally chosen,—viz., " To promote and perpetuate the study of Cardinal......

Mr. And Mrs. Howitt.

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — In your interesting notice of " The Riverside Natura- list," I think you have made a mistake in attributing the charming story of the......