6 DECEMBER 1884, page 13

The Allotments Extension Act.

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Would you be surprised. to hear that the agricultural labourer is becoming quite indifferent to the occupation of allotment lands P I......

Dryden's Prophecy.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. 'J Six,—Was Dryden a prophet ? The following portrait from "The Hind and the Panther" surely requires no identification to-day :— " Prompt to......

Poetry.

THE ENEMIES. MINE enemy, who time and oft Had smitten me with words like swords, And trampled on my answer soft, Till I too smote with angry words, Is dead, and I am fairly......

The Blot In The Bill.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Many good Radicals fear very much the effect of dividing large constituencies into wards, returning one Member each. A voter for• an......