14 FEBRUARY 1880, Page 14

CALVINISM AND ART.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

Sia,—In your review of " The Higher Life in Art," on the 31st. ult., you say, " There has been no creed ever held by any number of people that has not expressed itself through art of some kind." In what art has Calvinism ever expressed itself P Per- haps you will say, in the poetry of " Paradise Lost." But it is- surely a mistake to call Milton a Calvinist.—I am, Sir, &c.,

JOSEPH JOHN MIMPHY.

[Surely the " Pilgrim's Progress " is a true work of art.—En.. Spectator.]