5 JANUARY 1884, page 16

Instinct.

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Sir John Lubbock's letter, suggesting the possibility of inducing intelligent dogs to communicate their wishes to us, is very......

Mr. Parnell's Attitude.

(To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sra,—It will materially assist in understanding Mr. Parnell's attitude towards the murders and other outrages perpetrated by the agents of......

Tournaments.

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—I troubled you some little time back with a letter about Beards. Let me now trouble you with one about Tournaments.. In the article on......

Samuel Palmer's " Eclogues Of 'virgil." [to The Editor Of

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—After Mr. Hamerton's letter in your impression of last week, further comment from me may seem superfluous ; but although so ably defended, I must ask......