14 FEBRUARY 1880, page 14

Lord Beaconsfield As A Historian.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SI11, - Of the various qualities which contribute to render the present Prime Minister the most phenomenal specimen of suc- cessful public......

Mr. Watts On Art.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] am glad to see that you intend to notice Mr. Watts's masterly and inspiriting article in the last Nineteenth, Century, on " The Present......

A Schoolmaster On Writing.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIB,—Allow me, as a teacher, to thank you for your article on " Writing." I rejoiced to find even a side-blow struck at that potent power......

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......

Ox-pl013 Ghing.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.] Sur.,—Eight hundred feet above the sea, among the granite• hills of Aberdeenshire, I saw, for the first time in Scotland, an ox at plough. I......