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Books.

'CANTON.* IF anything can surprise the traveller who has seen Siam, it is the city of Canton. He has to see Hong Kong first, but Hong Kong is a common-place spectacle for those......

[to Trh Editor Of The "spectator."] Silt,—in Your Notice Of

Dr. Maguire's letter to Mr. Fawcett you say that "the numbers of the Roman Catholic and Protestant middle-class in Ireland from whom the Universities ought to be recruited being......

The Irish-university Question.

[To THR EDITOR OF THR 4 .• SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Allow me to make a few remarks on your notice of my letter to Professor Fawcett. You state that the statistics which I quoted, and......

The Agricultural Labourer And The Clergy.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,.—Your correspondent Mr. Charles W. Stubbs has scarcely, I think, divined the real cause of the indifference which is exhi- bited by the......

Darwinism And Theology.

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the very able series of letters which Mr. Fry has addressed' to you under the above heading, he appears to me to present one point far......