25 JULY 1885, page 15

Vincent Bourne And Cowper.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPF,CTETOR."] fillte••COWper—" I love the memory of Vinny Bonnie "—would, perhaps, have been little pleased by praise of his," Jackdaw,"— " A great......

Free Education.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] should like to call a little more attention to the cry of Free Education. It is one that I have always dreaded, not only from its social, but......

Books.

M. TAINE ON THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CON VENTION.* THE submission of France to the Convention, the subject of this long and, it must be confessed, somewhat tediously padded- out......

Village Industries.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 am favoured by a number of communications from your readers respecting village industries. On the specific points on which they ask advice I......

Sonnet.—a Jersey Summer Day.

A SUNNY land, soft air, and drearaful ease, I lie, and watch a distant sail glide by, And wonder at the azure of the sky,— Not here the thunder of the tumbling seas : Beneath......

Poetry.

LL A.NMAD 0 C. • THIS is the key of England, cried the Dane On high Llanmadoc's rampart; either shore Is mine, Severn and Loughor : holm and tor, Cavern and crag, my warriors......