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Books.

THE CHARM OF THE "STATE TMALS."* THE State Trials are the best of good reading, and Howell's twenty volumes might be a sufficient library in themselves. It is not merely that......

Poetry.

THE MASTER OF LIFE. I AM the plough, Footing it painfully Master of Life, Out from the darkness Where my sharp coulter leads Into the silence— Ceases sterility ; Here are my......

Religion And Liberty.

(To THE EDITOR OF TIIR "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Many of your readers mast have been interested, I feel sure, by the philosophy of religion expounded so earnestly and gracefully in......

Fountains And Springs.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR.] SIR.—Your interesting article on this subject in the Spectator of July 15th suggests the question : How are the bidden cisterns of the springs......

Mr. Stillman On Signor Crispi.

[TO THE EDITOR OF TI3E "SPECTATOR.] suppose no author has the right of a reply to his reviewer ; opinion is free and irresponsible; but surely the author has a right to correct......