19 FEBRUARY 1881, page 16

Books.

PROVENCAL IDYLLS.* EVERY year the influence of reviews has less to do with the circulation or the failure of a book. The public maw enlarges itself, and must he fed with printed......

Ireland And England.

[To THE EDITOR OF Till' " SPECTATOR"] Sm„ — An almost unpardonable but really surprising ignorance exists in the English mind respecting the actual feelings of the Irish people......