29 AUGUST 1891, page 18

The Church Congress.

pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—Will you kindly allow me to point out to your readers that the tickets (price 6s. each) for the Rhyl Church Congress, which will soon......

Poetry.

YES ! urban is your Muse, and owns An empire based on London stones. Yet flow'rs, as mountain violets sweet, Spring from the pavement 'neath her feet. Of wilder birth this Muse......

The Cuckoo And Its Foster-mother.

[ro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 Sra,—Seeing that natural history finds a place in the Spectator, I venture to send you the following incident in bird- life, a common......

Attacks On The Lambeth J U Gme N T.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I did not say, as you allege, that the Lambeth Judgment " sanctioned " an abuse which none the less would be " per- fectly legal under......

Books.

SAINT-MARC GIRARDIN.* How far the pendulum of literary appreciation has swung since Sainte-Beuve gave his first causerie to Saint-Marc Girardin is worth considering, now that......

Mendez Pinto.

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIR, In a review of a new edition of Mendez Pinto's travels, in the Spectator of August 22nd, you accept Professor Yam- lAry's testimony in......