Poetry.

PHIL THE FIDDLER. (WESSEX SONG.) WHERE be to, you lads and lasses, Droo the furrow, droo the grasses P Here be Phil the fiddler passes, For to set 'ee all in trim. Look, the......

The Proportional Representation Society.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] 11110R,—With reference to the letter from Lord Avebury in your *rue of March 25th, appealing to your readers for financial aid in carrying......

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or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of......

The Referendum.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR, — The letter of Mr. Alfred Wheeler in your last issue affords a very apt illustration of the suppressio yeri which, unfortunately,......

Books.

BARBAROUS MEXICO.* Tax author of this book brings profoundly grave charges against the Government of Mexico, and in those parts of the book which tell of slavery, disguised......

All-british Shopping.

[To THE EDITOR ON THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR, —" The delusion that a nation can sell without buying" is a stock-in-trade Aunt Sally of early Victorian dress and structure, and it is......