23 MAY 1896, page 15

The Liberal-irish Alliance.

[To ma EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—As a careful listener to the speeches of Dr. Berry an& Mr. Hirst Hollowell at the Congregational Union, will you allow me to add a word......

Poetry.

LINES (FREELY ENLARGED FROM VICTOR HUGO). LIKE a tiny glint of light piercing through the dusty gloom Comes her little laughing face through the shadows of my MOM. And my pen......

Books.

THE INNER LIFE OF JAPAN.* IT is with no little pleasure that we welcome Mr. Hearn's new volume of Japanese studies. In his former work he showed an extraordinary power of......

Johannesburg.

[TO THE EDITOR Or TEl " SPEOTETOP:] Sin,—If Mr. Whitaker can find a parallel in the classics to the ineptitude of the capitalists, may I find one to the in- tolerance of the......

Potter Fell Tarn, Westmoreland.

MERE of the Moorland Boulder-environed, Lost in this secret Dip of the Fell, Desolate art thou, Severed from all things, All thy horizon Heather and ling. From the height yonder......