13 MARCH 1897, page 13

A Competitive Examination In Physique.

I T is curious, and not a little amusing to those who eau look back through many years, to see how forgotten controversies are revived and re-argued as if they had never been......

Decadence In Poetry.

P ROFESSOR COURTHOPE, in the lecture which he delivered this day week at Oxford on " Life in Poetry," began to consider the causes of decadence, or in other words, want of life......