3 JANUARY 1891, page 23

Books.

EDWARD VI. AND THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.* FATHER GASQUET is already well known to students of history by his learned and conscientious work on Henry VIII. and the English......

Mary Fiowitt.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " BrnoTATOR."] SIR,—I am glad to see the poems of William and Mary Howitt described in this week's Spectator as "an inheritance of which the children of......

"a Daughter Of The Pyramids." [to The Editor Op Tee

"SPECTATOR."] - Szn,—The notice of my novel, "A Daughter of the Pyramids," in the Spectator of December 27th, while paying a very generous , tribute to the merits the writer......

Poetry.

TO 1890. DEATH and disease, Old Year, thou earnest bearing : Sorrow and want attend upon thee yet : Into the gathering shadows disappearing, Vanish ! without one tribute of......

Mr. Ruskin As A Lecturer.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your notice (in the Spectator of December 20th), of Mr. Cook's "Studies in Ruskin," you quote a passage from the book in illustration......

The Need For A Children's Convalescent Rome.

[To THE EDITOR OF TICE " SmmitTOn."] 8111,-51 7 11.1 you allow me, through your columns, to make a !request, in the hope that some reader may feel inclined to =supply what is......