24 JANUARY 1885, page 18

The Agricultural Labourer And The Church.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:"] SIR,—If " B.'s " verses, entitled "Hodge and a Liberationist," are not written satirically, the author must be singularly unversed in what......

The Proposed Examination Statute At Oxford.

rTo TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'1 you allow me to appeal, through your columns, to Members of Convocation, and to beg them to forbid by their votes what seems to many an act......

Irish Farming In 1884.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sm,—Badly as the agriculturalist has fared in Ireland for the last twelve months, the grazier has fared worse. Let me give one example of how......

The "holyrood Annual."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—My attention has just been drawn to a letter in your columns from Messrs. Bryce and Son, of Glasgow, respecting "Christmas Gleams,"......

Poetry.

RELIGIO ACADEMICI.—III. "LOVE, He is love," I said it, where endless smoke, as a furnace, Hangs o'er the Dead-sea wave, grave of Gomorrah of yore; There where the balelire fell,......