2 MAY 1885, page 14

A Former Head Master Of Harrow.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.] SIR,--In the Spectator of April 25th, you published a notice upon a work of mine on Harrow School, and made an inference derived from an......

Marriages Of Affinity.

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—In reference to your note on Dr. Candlish's letter, does it not occur to yen that if the Scriptural prohibition of unlawful relations of......

Poetry.

CO WPE R. As o'er the hushed hills and the sleeping plain, After long hours, the weary watcher sees The night grow pale, and hears amid the trees The wind that swooned at even......

Art.

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. [FIRST NOTICE.1 Tile great picture-show of the year—greater by five hundred pictures than it has formerly been—has had its "private view," and will open to......