14 JANUARY 1888, page 15

Books.

AN ENGLISHWOMAN'S HOME IN THE ROCKIES.* THESE fresh and spirited letters agreeably illustrate the fact that the value of a book is often in inverse proportion to its bulk. They......

Remarkable Longevity.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ) SIR,—The longevity of the only seven persons buried in our churchyard in 1887 was so remarkable, that I venture to send you their ages......

George Loveday.

[OMIT JET. 52, DECEMBER, 1887.] THE sapless leaves fell in the drear December In mourning on the dull, inverted clod; And the few faithful friends who must remember. With head......

The Decrease Of Conversions To Rome.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—There is much force in the explanations suggested by Mr. Bartlett, with characteristic urbanity and equity of state- ment, of the......

Poetry.

TO LORD TENNYSON. EINSCRLBED IN A COPY OF "PRINCE LUCIFER," PRESENTED TO THE POET LAUREATE.] POET! In other lands, when Spring no more Fleets o'er the grass nor in the......