4 MAY 1889, page 16

An Orphanage In Straits.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you kindly allow me to thank an unknown friend, "M.," for a generous donation of £5 for the Upper Clapton Orphanage ? I have......

Art.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER- COLOURS. THE present exhibition strikes us as being neither better not- worse than the many that we have seen in former years. When one first......

The New English Art Club.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOB."1 SIR,—The notice of the New English Art Club opens thus :— " Candidates for election to membership of the New Reglish Art Club will not be......

Poetry.

LONDON, APRIL, 1889. THE earth awakes even here ; 'Mid the town's din and strife, The music of the year Touches the heart of life. The earth even here is blest 'Neath the town's......

"bulls."

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The so-called Irish " bulls " exhibited by your recent contributors are mostly spurious, or at best of a mixed breed. The genuine......

The Bahamas.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] regret that my letter to you, sent last week in answer to an attack upon me signed "Robert Whittleton," was too long for insertion, as I am,......