2 JUNE 1888, page 16

Books.

THE CITY OF DREAM.* THE City of Dream contains much fine poetry, but we cannot think with Mr. Lecky, who eulogised it at the Royal Academy dinner as a noble poem. Perhaps Mr.......

[to The Editor Of The "spectator." I Sin,—if We Were

content to attach more importance to the value of time in working out our reforms, many of the diffi- culties in the way would disappear ; but we choose rather to delay......

The Meaning Of " Vertere Pollicem."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is interesting to find from your article, "The Last Sensation," that the belief that the Romans turned down their thumbs when they......

Poetry.

IN MEMORIAM. OH, to recall the days when, on the road That led me, cheerful or depressed, towards home, My little timid son was wont to come Within my ken, not far from my......