Mrs. Archer Clive's Poems.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " STECTE/011 Sia,—I have a copy of the " second edition, with some addi- tions," of " IX. Poems by V.," 1841. " Youth and Age" (Part IL) begins at p. 33.......

Memory Of Birds.

I To ran Rums or THE "specuros.1 SIR, —Last year I fed the tomtits with a cocoanut suspended on a stick outside my window, and they came greedily. This year forgot all about it,......

Poetry.

IRELAND. IN the wild and lurid desert, in the thunder-travelled ways; 'Neath the night that ever hurries to the dawn that still delays, There she clutches at illusions, and she......

Books.

SIDNEY LANIER.* THE best poetry of the United States has always seemed to- us more remarkable for refinement and fancy than for either passion or power. We are not, of course,......

Mr. Hare's " France."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "Srscrcros."] SIR,—I have just been shown a notice of my " France " in the Spectator as a new edition it is only just published.—I am, Athenaeum Club, Pall......

The Nursing Of The Sick In Workhouses.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The condition and management of our• voluntary hospitals has lately been brought prominently before the public, and attention has been,......