4 NOVEMBER 1871, page 17

The Report Of The Dialectical Society.

[To THE EDITOR OF TRH "SPROTATOR.1 Sin,—In your notice of the Report you ask who was the medium or Psychic in whose presence Dr. Edmunds' ponderous dining- table was swung about......

"the Guild Of Plain Dressers."

[TO THE EDITOR Op THE SPEOTATOR,1 Sin, — You may be interested in learning that in a West-- Midland diocese an attempt has been made to revive the Sump- tuary laws and to set up......

Books.

TAINE'S HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.* Mn. VAN LAUN has done a difficult task admirably by translating into the English of a scholar one of the most brilliant books that France......