"the Pearl Of The Antilles." Ero Trh Editor Of The

"SrzerlrOB..") SIR,—In your notice of Mr. Goodman's "Pearl of the Antilles" you state that the title "occurred to Mr. Goodman first, and he registered and advertised the fact......

" Gerard's Monument."

(To rus EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR,—The exceptional candour with which you are ever ready to rectify misunderstanding induces me to believe that you will permit me to free"......

A Quaint Epitaph. Ero Th.r Editor Of Trh "spectator:i

venture to send you an epitaph which, I think, is as good an example as I have met with of the punning class, although it *Lows also deeper and worthier feelings in the author.......

Poetry.

THE GREEK POETS. LOVING the Beautiful, they asked no more, But found in Nature's outward form the soul Which filled all space, and harmonised the whole ; In them the wisdom......

- Purchase And The Ashantee War.

{to THE EDITOR OF THE "SPROTATOR.I ' your impressiOn of the 11th you comment on Colonel Lord-Lindsay's speech to the Berkshire electors on Tuesday last, and in so " doing......

The Agricultural Labourers.

[TO THR EDITOR OP TEl " &ROTATOR:1 Slit,—A question of subordinate importance has risen into some- prominence, viz. :—" What can the Clergy do ? " Mr. Temple seems certainly to......

Books.

WHITE ROSE AND RED.* THIS is a poem of great, and in parts, of rare beauty, though it falls now and again for brief intervals to the level of the prosaic and the common-place,......