29 OCTOBER 1887, page 15

A Wo Memorandum 01' October.

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] Si,—In these days of book-cramming, it is refreshing to meet with an original investigator naively unconscious of the limits of the range of......

Books.

THE NEW ANTIGONE.* Tuts is, in truth, a romance, and not a novel,—and a romance of considerable power. The strength of it lies not in the con- ception or the painting of......

The Death Of Achilles.

[To THE EDITOR Or THY SPECTATOB." . 1 SIII,—Your critic of Mr. Ogle's "Idylls of Ilium" doubts whether the slaying of Achilles by Apollo in aid of Faris is Homeric,— at least,......