30 DECEMBER 1876, page 15

Catholic "charms."

[To TUB EDITOR OF TRH "Srsoraros."] &o,—Your usually logical mind is, in this instance, unequal to itself. Supposing that sprinkling with holy-waters were recom- mended as......

Poetry.

THE FAREWELL OF THE OLD YEAR. WHEN the moments of friendship are numbered, How oft it appears That the love which in laughter has slumbered Awakes now in tears ! We are friends......

The Game Laws And Murder.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SLa,—I should think that the foul murders lately committed by poachera near Yeovil and Hungerford must have suggested some uncomfortable......

Chaucer For Children.

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I, in consequence of your notice of Mrs. Haweis's "Chaucer for Children," remind your readers of a very admirable book of "Tales......

The Utopia Of The Spelling-book Makers.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SFEOTITOR.1 SIR,—With the general argument of your article entitled, "The Utopia of the Spelling-book Makers," I am in perfect sympathy. Children must be......