Poetry.
THE SWALLOWS. IN ancient days when, under cloudless skies, Spring's earliest swallows touched the Italian shore, Sad-hearted mothers gazed with yearning eyes, And cried, "Our......
M U S I C.
THE COST OF A PRIVATE ORCHESTRA. A FEW years ago Lord Meath contributed to the Times a letter in which he set down a list of practical hints for benevolent......
"valueless Printed Matter."
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOIL1 SrE,—I had intended to have written to you on this subject, which is of the gravest importance to all literary men, present and future; but as......
The Royal Academy.
[To THE EDITOR OF TIIE "SPECTATOR.") Sin, — May I call attention once more to the absurd conserva- tism of the Academy in permitting all artists to send in eight works? We are......
Mrs. Delay.
(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR-1 Sur,—In your interesting notice of Mrs. Delany in the Spectator of April 28th you quote her words written in 1776, Nightgowns are worn without......