31 OCTOBER 1891, page 14

Poetry.

THE EMPTY NEST. I SAUNTER all about the pleasant place You made thrice pleasant, 0 my friends, to me ; But you have gone where laughs in radiant grace That thousand-memoried......

Books.

DR. MARTINEAU'S ECCLESIASTICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS.* Tuts second volume of Dr. Martineau's Essays takes us back some fifty years, beyond the days when the Church of Rome......

Letters To The Editor.

IRISH STORIES. go THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTLTOR."1 Sra,—May I take the liberty of correcting the writer of the article on Irish humour in the Spectator of October 24th, as to......

The Messenger.

WEARIED, I flung my work away from me. All my soul's labour, all my toil, life-long, My hopes, and my ambitions, and my song, And closed my eyes, too dim with tears to see. When......

Fustel De Coulanges.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:'] SIR,—The reviewer of Mr. Ashley's translation from Con- langes, in the Spectator of October 24th, writes as if he were under the impression......

Campbell's Poetry.

'TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—Mr. R. F. Jupp quotes from " Gertrude of Wyoming" a line— "The torrent's smoothness, ere it dash below," as being in every one's month......

Scotch Humour.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."3 SIR,—That is a good story in your " Sensational Reformation " article in the Spectator of October 24th. As to the effort to terrorise a......