21 JANUARY 1899, page 15

The Situation In Italy. [to Tim Editor Of Tel Spectator.1

Sin,--The point I wished to urge, in the Spectator of January 7th, was not that territorial sovereignty is the only conceivable means of securing that the Pope should be really......

Children And Their Kitchen-love.

(To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Will you allow me, from a distance, to put in my pro- test—which I am sure will not be an isolated one—against Mr. Tollemache's view......

The "in Memoriam" Metre.

[TO THY EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR?'] SIR, — If your correspondent will turn to the fourteenth chapter of the " Memoir of Lord Tennyson," by his son (Vol. I., p. 305), he will......

The Apparent Hardness Of Children.

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:'] SIR,—In the brisk correspondence at present going on re- garding children's want of sensitiveness in giving pain to living creatures, it......

Poetry.

THE CZAR'S ALLY. [The Czar on his way to Livadia stopped at the railway station of Tula and sent a request that Count Tolstoi would come to meet him. The greeting and......