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Tennyson And Patmore.

[To THE EDITOR OP TRE " SPEGTATos.."] SIR,—" A. S." has found in Petrarch a passage which he thinks suggested Tennyson's reference to,- " Him who sings To one clear harp in......

Solicitors And The Public.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."1 SIR, — Your correspondent, Mr. Addy, suggests that the test of a severe examination should constitute the solicitor. I say that a solicitor......

Suicide.

(To THM EDITOR OF TEGI " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your article, last week, on Dr. O'Dea's work on the above subject, you express your surprise that Switzerland should stand so high......

Poetry.

" 0 GIVE my Sons," the Grecian mother cried, "Whose pious arms have dragged thy heavy car From yonder town to this thy shrine afar, Thy last best gift, to mortals most denied I"......

Books.

THE FORAY OF QUEEN MEAVE.* "1 aONFESS," says Mr. Godkin, in the August number of the Nineteenth Century, "I have until recently under-estimated the strength and permanence of......