13 NOVEMBER 1897, page 17

Mr. Tom Hughes.

[TO TIM EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] may not be uninteresting to place on record Tom Hughes' own words with reference to the character of Arthur in 'Tom Brown." In reply to my......

Poetry.

OLD AGE. DEAR, though the first sweet sting of love be o'er, The sweet that almost venom is ; though youth With tender and extravagant delight Pass off; there shall succeed a......

Books.

MRS. BROWNING'S LETTERS.* THE poets and thinkers whom any generation finds it most hard to judge truly are the poets and thinkers of the genera- tion immediately preceding its......