15 AUGUST 1874, page 14

A Message—an Answer.

I. I HEARD that life was failing thee ; and sent A rose, the Chalice of Love's Sacrament, Thinking that the sweet heart of her should show How one remembers thee, that long ago......

The Condition Of Egypt.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—As most people acquainted with the good-natured, in- dustrious, and frugal population of the Nile Valley cannot but feel a lively......

The Lancashire Atrocities.

[TO THIS EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Stn,—As one who has been called upon in the course of his daily work to give attention to the Kicking Murders of the North of England, allow......

Poetry.

VOICES OF THE DEAD. A FEW snow-patches on the mountain-side, A few white foam-flakes from the ebbing tide, A few remembered words of malice spent, The record of some dead man's......