17 JUNE 1882, page 10

Poetry And Pessimism.

M R. LESLIE STEPHEN has told us that "nothing is less poetical than optimism," and assuredly pessimism has taken a strong hold on the minor poets of our day. Thus, in a series......

Oriental Patriotism.

W E know of no subject upon which the opinion of experts in Asiatic affairs is so hopelessly divided as that of • Oriental Patriotism. A great number of the keenest of them, and......