14 DECEMBER 1872, page 16

Sir 'thomas Acland And The Land Laws.

(TO TIM EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—As a small landowner in that part of Somersetshire which Sir Thomas Acland once represented in Parliament, I trust you will allow me to......

Books.

THE COUNTESS LEONORA CHRISTINA ULFELDT.* Lv 1615, Christian IV., King of Denmark, contracted a morgan- atic marriage with Kirstine Munk, a lady of an ancient and noble Danish......

Labourers' Cottages.

[To MS EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Mr. James Hall wrote to the Times last week that a Company at Newcastle-on-Tyne for building dwellings for work- ing-men had realized......