28 FEBRUARY 1874, page 12

Two Robbers.

WHEN Death from some fair face Is stealing life away, All weep, save she, the grace That earth shall lose to-day. When Time from some fair face Steals beauty year by year, For......

Poetry.

SONNET. ALAS ! sweet Life, that thou must fly so fast ! Is there no breathing-space for thee and me ? So much we have to say, and learn, and see, So late it seems since spring's......

The Ulster Elections.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:'] SIR,—.1 am one of those Liberals who think that Mr. Gladstone's attempted coup d'etat deserved to fail. I wish to point out that in the only......

Art.

JOHN PYE AND CHIAROSCURO. IT is not enough to say of the late Mr. John Pye that he was the most complete engraver of Turner's paintings, and therefore the most complete engraver......

African Geography.

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin, —Your correspondent, Mr. B. G. Jenkins, states that " within the historical period the southern part of what we now know as Northern......