14 DECEMBER 1872, page 14

The Late Contest At Oxford.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPBOTATOE.1 Sim,—The scene in the Sheldonian Theatre on Wednesday, though exciting enough to a younger generation, must have seemed tame to veterans who......

Dryden And Modern Style.

S UCH cheap reprints of Dryden as the " Globe Edition" mark, we trust, the coming-back of a taste for poets who were the delight of days that did not know the lurid tints of......

Letters To The Editor.

MR. GLADSTONE AND HOMER. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] MY DEAR Sim i —In your interesting article of to-day on the- study of Homer, you have quoted from a report of some......