5 AUGUST 1871, page 15

The "provincial" Ciia.ra.cter Of London.

[TO WTI RIAT011 Oil' TOE .OPROTATOit."] Sie,—The fact that I am a Seotchinan will be amply apparent in what is to follow ; also the other fact that I am fresh from the far north......

P 0 E T It Y.

FROM HEINE. ICH WEISS NICHT, WAS SOLL ES DRDEUTEN." A BODING sadness is o'er me, And I know not what this may imply, For still there keeps floating before me A legend of times......

A Correction.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,-1 cannot pass over a slip in your number Wilma to-day which gives the credit of the best of all classical puns to the Whig pedant Parr.......

The Lords.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") tint,-.-I observe in your last Saturday's number you indulge in a good deal of contemptuous comment on what you call "the puer- ilities of the......

Where Once The Templar Bowed His Head, Where Nursemaids Walk

and children sport, Where Blackstone wrote and Murray read,— A lasting halo o'er them dwells, Though dingy look those little cells. The Queen's Bench and the Common Pleas, The......