Poetry.
IRISH SONG. 1817(30E8T: 0 1D BY A LYRIC or BARRY CORNWALL'S.] On:! the Spring's delight Is the cowslip bright, As she laughs to the warblin' linnet ; And a whistlin' thrush On a......
Books.
SIR THOMAS MAY ON DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE.* [SECOND NOTICE.] SIR THOMAS MAY commences his second volume with a careful sketch of the vicissitudes of democratic government in the......
Billions.
(To THE EDITOR OF TRH ..seserrirea.-) Srlt,-.4 think billions are unduly slighted by the Times. I can give definite illustrations both of billions and trillions, meaning by a......
Signalling At Sea. [to The Editor Of Thb"spectator."]...
account of Mr. S. Harrison's method of signalling at sea—the Abacus system,—published in your journal of the -5th inadvertently wrote " right " for " left " and vice versa,......
[to Tr/ Editor Of Th1 " Snoriton.1 Sin,—your Brief...
in your last number on the vague indefiniteness of the sum of a "billion," reminds me of a story told by a clergyman in the North. He was returning home from a Bible-meeting, in......
Wife - Beating.
[TO THE EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Will you allow a woman to enter a protest against the severe, and as I think, unjust sentence pronounced on his countrymen by Sir......
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