15 SEPTEMBER 1900, page 17

Via Media.

I KNOW not yet, admits the wise ; I know, the braggart fool replies. Midway the modern highway lies,— I do not know, but criticise. L. E. G. B.......

Poetry.

THE ROAD TO LADYSMITH. GENTLE herdsman, tell me, pray, Unto the town of Ladysmith Which is the right and ready way ? The way is easy to be gone, Although to use but lately won ;......

Music.

NIETZSCHE AND WAGNER. THE attitude which an intelligent and enthusiastic Wagnerian is (or at any rate was) capable of assuming in regard to hostile criticism of his hero is......

" Sipodo And Bernard-1858 And 1900."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —You say in noticing my article in the Fortnightly (Spectator, September 8th) that while 'it is true that London crowds in 1858 did......