1 DECEMBER 1883, page 15

The Oxford Physiological Laboratory.

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Mr. E. B. Nicholson has declared himself to be the 'high local authority for the statements I challenged in the -Spectator for last week, I......

Books

A TIMELY HANDBOOK FOR CONSERVATIVES.* TIIE late Mr. Bagehot was, as is well known, on almost all sub- jects a hearty, though moderate Liberal. Nevertheless, his great dislike to......

Poetry.

CHARLES LAMB. DEAR heart ! from dim Elizabethan days Surely thy feet strayed to our garish noon ; Thou should'st have walked beneath a yellowing moon, In some old garden's......

Carlyle's Nemesis. [to The Editor Of The " Spectator-1...

inveterate habit of detraction—a mean habit, unaccountable in a man so great—avenged itself upon him in one instance of which, so far as I am aware, no notice has been taken.......