31 MARCH 1866, page 15

The Irish Difficulty. - [to The Editor Of The "

SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Some time ago, conversing with a Roman Catholic clergy- man, I remarked that two questions perplex this country, one affecting the tenure of land, the other......

Books.

VICTOR HUGO'S " WORKERS OF THE SEA." IN the Seven Lamps of Architecture,—perhaps among Mr. Ruskin's works one of those in which the most of gold and precious stones is mixed......