31 JANUARY 1891, page 31

A Curious Electioneering Bill. It° The Editor Of The...

SIE, — During the time of a contested election in Meath some sixty-five years ago, Sir Mark Somerville sent orders to the proprietor of the hotel in Trim to board and lodge all......

Poetry.

KITTY NEALE. FOUNDED ON AN OLD IRISH SONG IN THE PETRIE COLLECTION. ALL in the Golden Vale, I met with Kitty Neale, On her poll the milking-pail, a lamb nosing at her knee. Oh!......

Letters To The Editor.

literature for the blind First, the Braille type is excellent, and it is quite easy for any one of average brain to grasp the system. Second, though the supply of amusing books......

Linguists At The Post Office.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] SIR, —" Lindum " deserves all credit for his loyal defence of the officials of the Lincoln post-office and their educational antecedents. But......

[to The Editor Of Tee " Syectator.1

SIR,—About eighteen or twenty years ago, I received from an Italian friend in Italy, a request to me to do for him a com- mission that did not admit of delay. Being in the habit......

Art.

OLD MASTERS AT BURLINGTON HOUSE. HERE, for the twenty-second time, is a mixed company of the Immortals, and besides the familiar masters there is a collec- tion of English......