13 OCTOBER 1906, page 11

The Sheep-shearing.

K ING JOHN, taking a journey North to admonish the King of Scots, found (says Holinshed's " Chronicle ") that by reason of the great number of enclosures owned by the great,......

A Literary Disease And Its Results.

S OMEWHERE in an essay on Elizabethan critics it has been written that " the age of Elizabeth was too great in creation to be even respectable in criticism." But we of to- day......