21 FEBRUARY 1874, page 13

A Delicate Embarrassment.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Silt,—The sympathy you always show with those we are pleased to call the " lower animals " induces me to apply to you in a diffi- culty that......

Mr. Cliffe Leslie On The Taxes Of The Poor.

II R. CLIFFE LESLIE has written a paper in the current li.1. number of the Fortnightly to prove these three things :— " (1.) That the real burden imposed on the working-classes......

Letters To The Editor.

AFRICA AND AFRICA. [TO THE EDITOR OF THIS " SPECTATOR.1 ZIE,—Sir Bartle Frere, in delivering his inaugural address recently at the Society of Arts, deplored "the inferior......