30 MARCH 1878, page 12

Letters To The Editor.

THE EFFECTS OF SHORT-SIGHT. [TO THB EDITOR OF THE " SPZOTA.TOR.1 Sin,—Twice, within a few months, allusion has been made in the columns of the Spectator to a paper written by me......

Socialistic Atheism.

TN the remarkable account which the Times published last week of the Atheism of Berlin, one feature was very pro- minent,—the tendency to substitute the vox populi for the vox......

The Domestic Sphinx.

C OMPARED to a cat, a dog is a very simple and transparent creature. Sometimes, indeed, he is guilty of acts of decep- tion and hypocrisy, but they are crude and ingenuous......