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Poetry.

[" I threw magic-lantern portraits of different persons on the top of one another, on the same screen, and elicited a resultant face whicb resembled no one of the components in......

Books.

THE EVIL EYE.* THE tradition of the evil *eye still has an interest for imagina- tive minds, and is a subject well suited for dramatic and poetic treatment. So few mysteries are......

Improvements On Irish Land.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Yon must have observed the conflict of testimony on the subject of improvements on Irish land, some asserting that all the improvements......

Ireland.

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sta,—In your paper of the 25th ult. you refer to the letter of M. Molinari on Ireland. Will you allow:me to point out a fallacy which......

The New Irish University.

(To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In my letter of last week, the sentence printed, "He would not, it is true, give them a share in the glorious traditions of Trinity, but......

Persecution In France.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.) SIR,—Being in Paris during our late elections, I was grieved at the way in which the Republican Press misunderstood the issues. In like......