30 SEPTEMBER 1905, page 18

Italian Backgrounds.*

THERE is certainly a very wide difference between the traveller of to-day and the traveller of a century ago.. Perhaps the • Italian Backgrounds. By Edith Wharton. Illustrated......

Oxford And Other Memories.* " Whatever May Be Thought Of

the leaders of that time," said Lord Selborne on one occasion, speaking of the period of the Tractarian Movement, " all who knew them must admit that they were heroic......