23 MARCH 1901, page 16

Music

THE PROSPECTS OF OPERA. THE question of the opera of the future, which formed the cockpit of musical. controversy forty years ago, has now become the question of the future of......

Poetry.

TO GLADYS, A CHILD. Flashed the bright sign, strove Sweetest, when first you laid Large issue found ; Your band in mine. Clouds of my effluent love Self-centred, lonely, proud,......

Rifle Clubs.

[TO TIM EDITOR OP THE " spacreion.") SIB, —Reading the article on "Rifle Clubs and Volunteers" in the Spectator of January 5th, the one sensation " here at this unquiet limit of......

Public-house Licenses.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEGTATORM Sin,—its a means of increasing the Revenue you advocate an increase in the licenses to sell intoxicants. Does this mean that the State should......