8 MARCH 1879, page 13

Maize And Sorghum Sugar.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR'] Sra,—Your references to the Report of Mr. Drummond, Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Washington, on sugar-production in the United......

The " Conversion " Of Convicts.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sr - a,—May I point out another way of accounting for the in- stinctive and, I venture to think, healthy horror of the " sicken- ing " piety......

Poetry.

TILE wretched world has had enough Of snow and ice, and "quantum suff.," Altogether, Of floundering over field and park, And shivering through the light and dark, And vain......

The Higher Criticism.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SID,—Your issue of the 22nd ult., which I have only just seen, contains an article on the above subject, to which, as a student of literature......