27 JANUARY 1866, page 17

Books.

MR. TUPPER'S WORK AS A POET.* ALL the greater poets have formed the taste which they themselves satisfy. Every one has remarked the struggle through which, Wordsworth had to......

" Clerical M.p.'s."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Edinburgh, January 24, 1866. SIR,—I was very pleased to see the other day that you ad- vocated the admission of the clergy into the House of......

The Personality Of Evil.

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—The personality of an evil principle is one of those profound metaphysico-moral questions which, like the opposite question of the......

" Marian Rooke."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] New York, January 9, 1866. SIR,—Your New York Correspondent has done me the honour to make my novel of Marian Rooke the leading topic of his......