15 OCTOBER 1887, page 17

Books.

POPE LEO =A IT is scarcely possible to write in a judicial spirit, or with a complete knowledge, the life of any living man. And when the subject of the memoir is a reigning......

The Templecombe Meeting.

[To mg Berms or THE fireCTATOII-"J 8ia,—In the Spectator of October 8th, speaking of the meeting at Templecombe on October let, you say,—" There were provided, besides Mr.......

Mr. Chamberlain At Belfast.

[To IDS EDITOR 07 THZ SPECTATOR:") Ste,—When in Ireland in the summer of 1886, I thought it prudent to give Belfast a wide berth, owing to the free shooting going on in its......

Poetry.

IN A GLEN. WILD hollow deeply cloven in the hills, Oh, faint,-lit cloistral harbourage of rest ! Where silence, drowsing on thy placid breast, Is lulled with low, half-noiseless......