5 JANUARY 1889, page 23

Poetry.

A GREY DAY AT NAPLES, 1888. Tits lazy waters of the tideless sea, That murmur homage to Parthenope, Enveloped in November's cloak of brown, Hide their bright azure, as the......

[to The Editor Of The " Spectator:]

SIE, -" P. C. W." speaks of the "Evil Eye" as a supersti- tion prevalent in the Ireland of forty years ago. I can tell him that at this hour it is as widespread as ever. I have......

Books.

THE LAND OF DARKNESS.* WE could dispense with "the experience of the little Pilgrim," who has never seemed to us half as impressive as the other spiritual conceptions of the......

Closed Cathedrals.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR?'] had not intended to trouble you again on the subject of opening cathedrals. But as two of your correspondents have taken notice of my letter,......

Wordsworth's Sense Of Fate.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] St,—In your interesting article of December 22nd, 1888, on Mr. John Morley's essay on Wordsworth, you say,—" We cannot agree with Mr. Morley......