5 JANUARY 1901, page 18

Books.

TWO GREAT PORTRAIT PAINTERS.* THE proper way to write the Life of an artist is a matter of controversy. As a rule, books dealing with the lives and' works of painters are......

Abraham Lincoln.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—The following extract from Thayer's Life of Abraham Lincoln may be of interest at the present moment :- " In less than two months after......

Poetry.

NICHOLAS IL TEE double eagle of thy crest Looks either way, for sign The Empires of the East and West, Past and to come, are thine. To thee their hundred millions bow, Whom next......

The Importance Of Speed To Commerce.

[To TIER EDITOR OP TEE "EPDOTAT011.1 Ackworth's letter is hardly ad rem.,—the temporary loss of his empty portmanteau and the other petty grievances he enumerates are annoying......