14 DECEMBER 1878, page 14

Art.

THE ART OF EUROPE.—III I MUST premise that, except where otherwise stated, what I say of Italy applies equally to Spain, and vice versii ; the two countries at present forming......

"the Annual Register " : A Confession. To Tue Editor

OF THE " EPECTATOR.1 am really sorry for having aggrieved your reviewer. I fear that, like Charles Surface, I must have given many worthy men grounds for a like uneasiness.......

Poetry.

THE CLOSING YEAR. FASTER than petals fall on windy days From ruined roses, Hope after hope falls fluttering, and decays, Ere the year closes. For little hopes, that open but to......

The Liberal Leaders And The War.

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Stn,—At the opening of Parliament, two announcements were made on behalf of the Liberal party,—first, that they would not oppose the......

[a Correspondent Writes Correcting Our Statement That...

been twenty years in Asia, and saying that the General has been there only eleven years. Our correspondent is quite right. General Kaufmann was appointed November 17th,......

An Essay In Quantity.

Lo! the day, dawning with a rosy brightness, Leaps to each mountain over all the valleys, While the grey twilight, vanishing before it, Clings to the lowlands ; Where the hoarse......