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Books.

LOUIS XV.'s SECRET DIPLOMACY. , [FIRST NOTICE.] M. DE BROGLIE informs us that this work, " which has not even the remotest reference to the preoccupations of a very different......

Poetry.

FREE-WILL. STRENGTH of the beautiful day, green and blue and white ! Voice of leaf and of bird ! Low voice of mellow surf far down the curving shore t Strong white clouds and......

Nursery Rhymes.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—I have been for several evenings delighted by children's voices singing children's songs. One favourite song, in which even the baby of......

The Late Mrs. Grote.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A. few recollections of the late Mrs. Grote, by one who was admitted to some intimacy with her during the last five years of her life,......

"the Position In Afghanistan."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In a sensible article, headed, " The Position in Afghani- stan," in your issue of the 4th, you suggest that the Hillmen who were lately......