19 JULY 1890, page 17

Books.

ROLLICKING IRELAND.* IT is a pity that Sir Jonah Barrington's Personal Sketches of his Own Times has become a rare book, for nowhere else can be found so vivid a sketch of Irish......

Jack02

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—But for a way I have of never doing to-day what I can do to-morrow, you would have received long ago an account of my tame rook, for I......

Poetry.

MOSQUE'S THRESHOLD. A COMMON woman of the ashamed East, lirermilion'd, henna'd, filthy, and unchaste, Sat in the dust o' the vulture-cleansed bazaar With her brown weanling,......

A Tyrolese Tragedy.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") am most grateful to you for printing my appeal for the sufferers by " a Tyrolese tragedy." May I thank Mrs. Overend in your columns for her......