3 SEPTEMBER 1881, page 15

The Estates Of The Realm.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE, — When will the periodically recurring question of the Estates of the Realm be set at rest ? The Three Estates are properly, the Estate......

Poetry.

MELROSE. YE nameless builders of a bygone age, Whose patient toil hath sanctified our land. With holy relics,—ye whose 'cunning hand 'Raised this fair Abbey (now by senseless......

Sea Messengers.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] • SIR, — When in St. Kilda, in the winter of 1876-7, in a season .of distress, I fell upon the plan of making small ships and send- ing them......

Books.

EDGAR QUINET.* Tue fault of this book is not a common one,—that it is too modest. Mr. Heath would have done better if he had made a completer book, if he had carried Quinet's......

[to The Editor Of The "spectator."]

SIR,—To my regret, my Spectator of the 20th did not reach my hand until the 24th. I was deeply interested in the relation of " Martin's " affection for the persons of the......