11 JULY 1885, page 14

[to The Editor Of The " Spectator-1 Can Only Suppose

from Mr. Waller's letter that he has forgotten his own pictures, that being the only possible explana- tion of some of the statements contained therein. I am writing in a......

Pro The Editor Of Tee "spectator."]

SIR, — The disappointment expressed by "E. C. T.," in to-day's Spectator, would certainly not be " unreasonable " if it were well founded ; but I am happy to say that the......

Poetry.

SONNET. THE morning lights sleep softly on this hill ;— The snow clings coldly to Ben Nevis' sides ; And gently come and go the mystic tides Which man's small measure with......

Books.

MICHAEL FIELD'S NEW PLAYS.* MICHAEL FIELD has certainly not achieved in this volume any- thing as good as his play of Fair Rosamund. The new plays have plenty of dispersed power......

Mr. Waller's Pictures.

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Fair criticism, from a competent critic, I receive with respect; but as your Art critic (sheltering himself behind your paper, like a......