1 NOVEMBER 1902, page 32

Books.

MR. STOPFORD BROOKE'S BROWNING STTJDIES.t THE reckless praising of indifferent books is the great weak- ness of modern literary criticism, and this fault is not mended by......

Poetry,

THE BLACKBIRD" (LINES WRITTEN TO AN OLD IRISH AIR.) THERE' a sweet bird singin' in the Narrow Gign, He sings so clear with a golden bill, He'll call me afther him, an' then......

Church And Reform.

[To TEE EDITOR 0/, THE "SFECTAT01.1 Szs,—In reply to your reviewer, who says (Spectator, October 4th) that the House of Lords did not definitely reject the proposition that......

John Ruskin.

rTO TIIE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—I have letters of John Ruskin's, dated June, 1867, which, if his own word is to be relied upon, would seem to prove that the last......