11 MAY 1912, page 20

Poetry.

AT MAESTRICHT. [(In 1673 Louis XIV., assisted by Vauban, besieged Maastricht. The Duke , et Monmouth, John Churchill (afterwards the great Marlborough), and many other......

Art.

THE ACADEMY.—II. SOME four or five years ago a rumour reached the outside -world that there were dissensions at the Academy over the question of accepting for exhibition a......

Books.

CONSERVATISM.* THIS exposition of the spirit of Conservatism is as interesting and able as Lord Hugh Cecil's political philosophy always is. He frankly tells us that in......