7 FEBRUARY 1885, page 14

The 'archbishop Of York And The Late F. D. Maurice.

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] think the Archbishop of York is, on his own showing, rather unfair to Colonel Maurice in his letter to the Tines of Tuesday last. In the "......

Anecdote Of A Cat.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " spEcTAToR."1 SIR,—About two months ago, while staying in the Rocky Mountains in Northern Colorado, I witnessed an example of fatherly affection in a......

An Italian Dog.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.i Sin,—Have you room for one more dog-story which resembles one lately reported in a French journal ? A few years since I was sitting inside......

Poetry.

THE SONNET. MISCALL me not the poet's prison-cage Albeit of golden woof, his laurel tree To pattern pruned, Andromeda by the sea Fettered for death or Phoebus' starveling page !......

Books.

THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD.* EXCEPT for a certain bitterness of tone shown towards some individuals, which, though not unnatural, and perhaps not unjustifiable, has the odour of stale......