15 SEPTEMBER 1888, page 17

Poetry.

TRONDHJEM. AND was it there,—the splendour I behold P This great fjord with its silver grace outspread.. And thousand-wreck'd and thousand-islanded? Those far-off hills,......

The Trade-union Congress.

[To TER EDITOR or TER "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—May I suggest that your " bewilderment " over the votes for land-nationalisation at the Trade-Union Congress is of your own making? You......

The Depreciation Of Animal Character.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—There is a passage in Bacon's " Essay on Atheism" which is entirely in harmony with the views expressed in your article, " The......

Books.

HENRY II.* Mas. GREEN'S Henry II. is an admirable study of the life and work of the great Angevin. Henry II. interests us oft many sides and from many points of view, and to all......

Sir Frederick Bramwell On The Benefits Of Improved...

[To THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—It appears to me that the praises of machinery by Sir Frederick Bramwell are just now singularly inopportune, since it is evident that......

Panics—propitiatory Sacrifices.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your article on " Panics," in the Spectator of September 1st, reference was made to the world-wide belief that to secure the......

Cowper.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Siu,—In the course of your interesting notice of the Poet Cowper, in the Spectator of September 8th, you speak of the " jejune but sincere"......