21 MARCH 1891, page 11

The Charm Of Homer.

M R. GLADSTONE'S lecture on "The Homeric Artemis" to the boys of his old school, is of more interest as showing how a really great subject exerts over the imagination a spell......

Able Prosers.

T HE absolute dullness of the Talleyrand Memoirs, so far as they have appeared, has been rather a perplexity to their readers. Part of their apparent heaviness is no doubt due......