17 DECEMBER 1892, page 16

" Sykes' French Revolution."

[To nue EDITOR 01 THE " SPUTATOR."] SIR, —Your reviewer finds in my little book " a tendency to measure the moral character of an act by its results." Will you allow me to......

Books.

FIRST ESSAYS OF RICHARD JEFFERIES.* THERE can be no doubt as to the mood in which the essays by the late Richard Jefferies, now first collected in book-form, under the title of......

Mr. Harry Quilter's Protest.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your reviewer of " Preferences," who appears to have Impressionism and Mr. James McNeil Whistler somewhat on the brain, has entirely......

Poetry.

A MODERN MALADY. To be without an impulse or desire, A heap of fuel with no spark of fire ; To be a prey to modish melancholy, Without the force for any other folly ; To watch......