23 NOVEMBER 1895, page 17

Poetry.

GROWTH. BLOW, winds, your rage but shakes the tree And roots it surer in its place ! Scatter your rain, ye clouds, and free The buds that wait your frowning grace ! Roll down. 0......

" Plain " Quakerism.

f To THE EDITOR OY TRH " SPECTATOR:1 SIE,—Your article on "' Plain ' Quakerism," in the Spectator of November 1Gth, shows so much combined appreciation and misapprehension of......

Art.

EXHIBITIONS OF THE SEASON. A NUMBER of picture exhibitions are now open in London. The Portrait Painters at the New Gallery and the New English Art Club may be named as the most......