26 JULY 1884, page 16

[to The Editor Of The "spectator."]

Ste,— On reading the lines on "Philip, our late parish clerk," to a friend, he gave me the following from tombstones in the churchyard of Lurgan, in the North of Ireland :— "No......

"pseudonymous Biographers."

[To THZ EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—When a writer borrows from himself, be can scarcely be called a plagiarist; nor is it morally wrong to reprint in a book what you have......

[to The Editor Of The " Spectator." J Sra,—the Following

copies from tablets in Cuddington Church, Bucks, 1611, I think, put the Godshill epitaphs, referred to in last week's Spectator, into the shade.—I am, Sir, &c., "Here lieth the......

England Under Mr, Gladstone, 1880-1884.- [to The Editor...

"SPECTATOR."] SIB, — In your review of Mr. McCarthy's "England Under Mr. Gladstone, 1880-1884," you express surprise that the "writer imagines George Warrington to be a......

Poetry.

THE DERBYSHIRE FLYMAN'S STORY. AT Buxton, by the broad, green slopes 'twist the lower town and the higher, On the steep roadside beneath the trees, stand carriages for hire.......

Epitaphs.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—To your list of curious epitaphs permit me to add the following, which may be seen in the old churchyard at Middle- wich, in Cheshire,......