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Books.

MIDDLEMARCH.—PART III.* Middlernarch improves in interest as it goes on ;—in intellectual. ability it would be very hard for it to improve ; indeed, perhaps, the greatest......

Ireland.

[TO THB EDITOR OF THE “SPROTATOR.1 SIR,—I cannot agree with Mr. Murphy that agrarian crime arising- from quarrels among the Irish peasantry could be removed by direct......

Official Dress.

rTO THB EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I agree heartily with all that you have said in your reflec- tions on the Mayor of Batley's gold chain, of the real importance of......

Queen's College, Galway.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR?'] SIR, —By adopting the statistics of Mr. Synan, Member for Limerick, you have been led into a grave error, which I feel sure you will let me......