24 DECEMBER 1887, page 19

Free-trade And The Sugar-bounties.

[To TEE M.08 OF THE SPECTATOR." J SIR,—Your reference to me on December 17th entitles me to ask you to let me point out to your readers in what respect your views in connection......

Monsignor Persico's Mission.

[To ram Roma Or THE SYZCILT013."] Silt —Upon Monsignor Persico's report to the Pope, and the Pope's consequent action or inaction, I believe the general feeling of the mass of......

Poetry.

NATURE. NATURE is like a sister to my eyes, A maiden playful, petulant, and shy. Deep in her face sweet meanings I espy Which now she fain would hide, as the far skies Hide......

Art.

[SECOND NOTICE.] As a rale, our readers will agree with us that babies do not form, perhaps, the moat interesting subject for pictures, but Mr. Gregory's baby, in a red dress......

The Maamtrasna Murder.

[To Tag EDITOR OF TEE . SPECTATOS."] SIR, —In the Spectator of December 17th, there is a paragraph referring in terms of condemnation to Lord Randolph Churchill's "attack on......