28 NOVEMBER 1896, page 15

Mr. Stead's Test For Hymns.

E.TO TEM EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I hope I may profit by your kindly criticism of my little collection of "Hymns that have Helped," but may I beg the favour of a word......

Art.

THE AUTUMN EXHIBITIONS. THE Galleries have again opened their doors and the pictures are on the walls, "thick as autumn leaves that strew the brooks in Vallombrosa." Again the......

Poetry.

GOLD AND SILVER. OUT upon your earthly pelf— Give me gold and silver's self : Glint of golden suns at noon, Lustres of the argent moon— All the gold you sky receives For his......