4 FEBRUARY 1871, page 13

How To Defeat Book-canvassers.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I have just read your paragraph as to book-canvassers and their tricks, and I fancy some of your readers may perhaps like to know that......

Lessons From The Apocrypha.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, —A correspondent of the Spectator last week writes as if the new Table of Lessons (which the Government is pledged to carry into law......

Books.

MARTHA.* " MARTHA " is one of Mr. Gilbert's best books. Except that there is a little too much of those minutia which are hindrances to the progress of the story, and quite......

Poetry.

ENGLAND, AWAKE! SPIRIT of England, art thou sleeping? Soul of the Ocean, art thou fled ? Behold ! thy Sister is wounded and weeping ; The waves are leaping ; the storm is......

[to The Editor Of The "spectator. "]

Sra,—You clearly mistake the feeling of the provinces on this subject. The Queen has lost the respect of Englishmen because she notoriously neglects her duty, and applied the......