24 NOVEMBER 1866, page 15

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MR. ROSSETTI ON MR. SWINBURNE.* Fon a criticism friendly by bias, as the author freely admits, as well as by the force of sincere critical admiration, this essay of Mr.......

A Song Of Winter.

COLD Winter, art thou come ?— With all thy savage blasts and shortened hours, With nothing in thine eyes but starved gloom, And sad forgetfulness of Summer flowers, With little......

The Infinite And Professor Mansel. [to The Editor Of The

" SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I have often wondered, with your correspondent " Jr. V. N.," at the " perplexity hanging over the notion of the Iafinite " in the works of such writers as......

The Late Mr. Assheton Smith. [to The Editor Of The

" SPECTATOR."] " With equal results few would care to emulate the success of the late Mr. Assheton Smith, whose habitual brutality was such, that his favourite horse shook for......