Gibbon And The War.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] ISze,—For any one in these strenuous days of war to sit down and read The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire shows perhaps either a......
" Mutare Potest Aethiops Pellem ? " [to The Editor
OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—It may be interesting at the present moment to recall an avowal on record as having been made by Napoleon during his detention i St. Helena in the......
A "possible."
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sm,—At a moment when the practice of the shirker seems well-nigh becoming a fine art, the following instance of a "highest possible" in the......
Spring Flowers.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sre,—Your correspondent " Nemesis " in objecting to a flower show in war time seems to forget that it is the bounden duty of everybody too......
Ben Jonson On Shakespeare.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] SIR,—Jonson's well-known eulogy of Shakespeare includes the fol- lowing : "He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature." This, as......
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