16 AUGUST 1884, page 16

The Late Mr. W. R. Greg.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—You say that the argument of Mr. W. R. Greg's article, " England as It Is," in the Edinburgh Review of 1851, would have held good in......

Book S.

CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH.* Tins thick volume of nearly a thousand pages, many of which are in small type, is on the whole more curious than readable. Captain *Smith's mode of telling......

Poetry.

THE PHILOSOPHER'S ATOM. WIIEN ask we, " What is it? and whence did it come ?" No answer is given ; our science is dumb. Yet, bold in their dogma, nor bolder than blind, Some......