Abbe' Martin And The Ritualists.

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] SI11,—li is due to the position and undoubted sincerity of the Abbe Martin that I should offer some observations on his letter published in......

B 00 K S.

LORD CAN Tuns autobiography of the author of the" Lives of the Chancellors and the Chief Justices" rivals in interest the most interesting of the series. Few men who started......

Naturie Penetralia.

A SLUGGISH little stream, that loiters slow Between gnarled tree-trunks and thick tangled grass. And giant reeds, in a deep, wet morass For many a league, screened from the......

" The (..) I , ' Dr. Duff."

go THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:'] Snt,—With reference to Dr. Smith's letter, which appears in your last issue, it may be well to explain that we have pub- lished the new and......

Letters To The Editor.

RETREATS. • [TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] 'Sfa,—Retreats are too valuable to the cause of real religion, daward and practical, to be damaged by such a champion of that......

Poetry.

BEFORE THE SPRING. Tun wind has blown the last year's leaves- From off the primrose head; The lilac-shoot its prison cleaves; The elm-tree tips are red. And all about, though......