19 JANUARY 1901, page 17

Books.

CONFERENCES ON BOOKS AND MEN.* This book opens with a discussion upon that word of many meanings, "gentleman." The author is set upon his train of thought by a stray remark,......

Art.

SIR WILLIAM RICHMOND AT THE NEW GALLERY. THE ordeal endured by an artist who has his works collected together into one exhibition is a severe one. In the present instance the......

Poetry.

SEAFARERS. THE traders that hail from the Clyde, And the whalers that sail from Dundee, Put forth in their season on top of the tide To gather the grist of the sea, To ply in......

The Introduction Of Real Names In Fiction.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I ask your permission to offer a protest through your columns against an expedient lately adopted by certain authors to spice their......