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Books.

SIR HENRY HOLLAND'S RECOLLECTIONS.* SIR HENRY HOLLAND slightly apologizes in his preface to this amusing and interesting book for " the large proportion of the narrative"......

Alcohol As Medicine And Food.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] .'SIR,—Your reference to me in the article on Alcohol in last week's Spectator obliges me to ask for space in your columns to -correct an......

Poetry.

IN MEMORY OF BISHOP PATTESON. HAM He who reaps the wheat and leaves the tares, Who saves the rotten tree and fells the sound, No hidden purpose in the will that spares The......

"oh That I Had Wings Like A Dove!"

OH, restless brain ! be still a little while ; Let tender twilight steep thy stores in peace, The happy consciousness of calm shall ease Thy troubled toilings, and that restful......

The Athanasian Creed.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR:] suppose that no one, unless it be a Montague in love with a Capulet, believes that there is nothing in a. name. I believe that there is a......

[to The Editor Of The "speotatop.:] Have Read The Remarks

in the last number of your valuable publication on the paper in the Quarterly Review upon the " Pro- letariat" of Great Britain, in which I observe that what yon speak of as a......