17 MARCH 1883, page 15

Shelley And The Grand Style.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—It was with great interest that I read the admirable article on "The Conditions of 'The Grant Style,'" in Saturday's Spectator. With......

Poetry.

TEAR AND SMILE. "WHAT are you ?" said a tear, To a smile playing near. "With a flickering shimmer, You transiently glimmer On the meaningless features of mirth ; But you nothing......

[to Tee Editor Of The "spectator."]

&a, — T told a meeting of country parsons some months since that, in spite of their care in teaching the Catechism, working- men still believed that that document taught......

Books.

THE PARCHMENT TENNYSON.* THE "Parchment Library" is very taking in form, though it has one defect, that the thick paper on which it is printed rebels against the parchment......

'canon Rawlinson On The Antiquity Of Man.

FT0 THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' 'Sts., — Canon Rawlinson says, on page 25 of his tract, "There is no evidence that the primeval savage ever existed." He makes - this......

Wolves "think Long."

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—With reference to a quotation from Milton, in the article on "The Conditions of the Grand Style," in your paper for last week, the......

Content And The Church Catechism. [to Tee Editor Of The

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Most certainly the Church Catechism teaches us to rever- ence our betters : that is the reason why it is so precious a docu- ment for all Radical Churchmen.......