3 MAY 1884, page 15

Poetry.

OXFORD, PAST AND PRESENT. ! the rush, of old men with the kindly anxious faces, Bald heads, and white heads, or turning fast to grey ; Wandering here and there in the old......

" Dame-dieu !"

[To THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have read with much interest and amusement your article on " Swearing " in the Spectator of April 26th. But you will permit me to......

Art.

LET us get over the first futile but inevitable question as to this year's Academy,—" Is it better or worse than usual ?" —futile, since from the same ingredients, mixed in much......

Ercole Strozzt, Or Aldo Roma_no P [to The Editor Of

THR "SracTATok."1 &a,—In the beautiful Aldine edition (1513) of the poems of Tito and Ercole Strozzi, the first line of Ercole's fifth epigram in praise of Lucrezia Borgia......

Fro The Editor Of The "spectator."]

&a,—I have not seen the book reviewed in your article of April 26th on the "Art of Swearing," but I have often thought of the origin of the name which the Maid of Domremy is......