27 NOVEMBER 1869, page 16

[to The Editor Of The "spectator.")

Sin,—Before Parliament meets and takes the question of the Irish land out of the hands of the Press and the outside public, I hope you will permit me, who am neither a landlord......

Books.

HOOD AND DORE.* DORE'S greatest powers and his greatest deficiencies are alike illustrated in the eight engravings of this splendid book. Hood could be grotesque and grim, and......

The Irish Land Question.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—You appear to me somewhat to misinterpret the intention of the letter which you did me the favour to publish last week. It was not, I......

—could It Be By The Same Reviewer ?—as Having "charms

of language and method which made it exceedingly attractive." I am conscious of having very definite ideas of the subject about which I was writing ; and whatever my faults RR a......