25 FEBRUARY 1899, page 17

Tuesday Night's Debate.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THY "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,--I suppose that Lord Hugh Cecil is not old enough to remember that the late John Bright once spoke of a " spiritual Peer" as " a......

Faces.

[To THE RD/TOE OP THE " SPECTATOR." Stn,—In the Spectator of August 3rd, 1889, in an article called "In Praise of Idleness," I wrote : " The legibility of the marvellous record......

Books.

THE SEPOY MUTINY.* No event in the world's history was ever so fruitful of romantic heroism as the Sepoy Mutiny. Its literature, authentic and imaginative, is already vast, and......

Lord Beaconsfield And The Influenza.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—We are undergoing another visitation of the malady known as influenza, and supposed by many people to be of recent growth. The following......

Poetry.

LINES TO AN ANTI-SEMITE. STAND! as God saw thee of old time We see and know thee now : The brand of nnforgotten crime Still black upon thy brow. That mark, Eternal Justice......