28 NOVEMBER 1863, page 15

The Irish Nation And The Rival Churches. To The Editor

OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—I cannot think that the letter of Dr. M'Hale to Mr. Glad- stone is deserving of the contempt which the Times bestowed upon it. So far as the Archbishop......

The Oxford Professorship Of Ecclesiastical History.

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.' Sra,—The paragraph in last Saturday's Spectator relating to the Oxford Professorship of Ecclesiastical History has occasioned much surprise to......

Books.

MR. LONGFELLOW'S NEW POEMS.* IT is rather a remarkable fact that the most striking characteristic common to all the more eminent American authors is not one of substance but one......