2 JANUARY 1886, page 23

Religion In State Schools.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOE.' . ] SIR,—Thank you for your protest against Dr. Dale's idea of injustice. Assuming Dr. Dale's premisses, he is strictly logical. Few......

The Sultan's Treasury.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You ask, "Where is the proof that the Crusaders [of the fourth Crusade] stole objects of art ?" and "if so, what did they do with them......

Accumulation, Substitute Everywhere The Authority Of The...

or the future County Board for the exertions of the individual, regulate the distribution of out-door relief on a grand scale, and everywhere trust to compulsion rather than......

University Of London Reform.

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " $PECTIT011.”] SIR,-It will be readily conceded that the movement for making the University of London something less of a Government 'Office and something......

Poetry.

CHRISTMAS. CHRIST'S star is bright, and yet our hearts are holden With dim forebodings, ghosts of gathering fear ; It is not as in days of childhood olden, When Christmas seemed......