11 OCTOBER 1884, page 16

Books.

A GERMAN EPIC.* IT shows how complete is the neglect in this country of the con- temporary poetry of Germany that no English critic, as far as- we are aware, has called......

Poetry.

THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. p he original of these lines was written more than fifty years ago by the Greek poet Alexander Soutsos, as a satiric protest against a decree, passed......

Bernal Osborne.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR"1 SIR, — In your obliging notice of the paper on Mr. Bernal Osborne in the current number of the Fortnightly Review, you say, " The point to be......

" Pasce Verbo, Pasce Vita."

—ST. BERNARD. Lo I this one preached with fervent tongue : The world went forth to hear; Upon his burning words they hung, Intent, with ravished ear. Like other lives the life......