18 OCTOBER 1884, page 14

Henry Greville's Diary.

rTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.' SIR,—Can you spare a few lines to put right Mr. Greville's anecdote of Charles Lamb saying to Mr. Basil Montagu, "Basil, if dirt were trumps,......

The "silent Revolution."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The point presented in your article of September 27th, on "Silent Revolution," is of very great interest; nor is the force with which......

Poetry.

A HOLIDAY INVITATION. COME, friend, with me, if simple thoughts console ; To our glad session bring no wiser brain— Come where betwixt the mountain and the plain The billowy......

Books.

MR. TRAILL'S COLERIDGE.* Mr. TRAILL had in Sterne a subject better suited to his style- and habits of thought than he has got in Coleridge. This little book on the great......

Plebiscite About Preachers.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sfit,—I noticed in your issue of October 4th the extraordinary mistake about the five preachers who came first in the poll, but at the time......