20 JANUARY 1894, page 16

The Old Masters.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—May it be permitted to an old Art lover, but unfor- tunately one of the uninitiated, according to the ideas of "D. S. M.," to ask your......

Poetry.

LINES TO A WRITER OF FAIRY-TALES. OH, chronicler of Elves and Bees, Whose mutual old antipathies, Whose leagues, whose loves, whose strifes you jolt And battles in the foxglove......

Letters To The Editor.

MAJOR PERCY'S MISSION AFTER WATERLOO. r To THE EDITOR OF TEN "SPECTATOR."] think many persons in London must have known on Wednesday evening, June 21st, 1815, before Major......

Germany And South Australia.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR.,—May I reply to your query why more Southern Ger- mans do not emigrate to Southern Australia? The distance is decidedly a deterrent......

Books.

MR. THOMPSON'S POEMS.* IN Mr. Thompson's poems there is a curious mixture of Rossetti's sensuous glowing language and rather overloaded. metaphors, and the " conceits " of what......