25 MAY 1889, page 15

Letters To The Editor..

ASTRONOMY AND THE INSIGNIFICANCE OF MAN. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOH."11 Sin,—Among the fragments in my hands of " Lectures on Astronomy," by Sir William Rowan Hamilton, I......

Corresponden Ce.

THE NEGRO QUESTION IN AMERICA. THE Negro Question is hardly less to the fore in the old Slave States than the Irish Question is in Great Britain. It meets you everywhere,—the......

A Prairie Fire.

SIR, — Some of your readers will, I think, be interested in the accompanying extract from a letter just received by me from two young settlers in the North-West of Canada.—I am,......

Modern Nomads.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your very interesting article of a few weeks ago on the strange social phenomenon which you call " The Invasion of Oklahoma," you......