8 MAY 1886, page 13

The Tweed And The Gala.

[To TEE EDITOR OF THI " SFECTATOR." SIR, — In your review of May 1st, of Mr. Andrew Lang's "Letters to Dead Authors," the following passage occurs in the quotation from the......

Poetry.

THE SKYLARK. ENSUED in cloudless calm this fresh May-morn, High up in soaring ecstasy the lark, A quivering speck of pulsing melody, Brims all the azure vault with rapturous......

Mr. Hobhouse And East Somerset.

[To ?RR EDITOR OF TM' " SPRCT/LTOR.1 SIR,—Will you kindly allow me to deny emphatically the state- ment made in your columns of May 1st, that I reject the Home- rule Bill,......

The Depression In The Art World.

I T seems to be admitted on all hands that the Exhibition of the Royal Academy this year is not an encouraging one. The good pictures are not many, the bad pictures are......

Musical Literature.

[To THY EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR... SIR, — In order to avoid all possible misconception of the allusion to the grotesque translations of Rubinstein's songs, in the article......

Letters To The Editor.

"THE NEED FOR UNITY." [To T/IR EDITOR OF TEl " SPRCTLTOR.”) SIR, — Your correspondent, Mr. Andrew Johnston, has mooted a question which is perplexing many earnest Liberals who......