31 JULY 1880, page 10

"a New Old Comedy."

M ACAULAY has told us, writing of Byron's sudden punish- ment at the hands of' Society," how periodically fits of out- raged virtue break out in that mystic body, as a......

Matthew Arnold's Prose Passages.

M R. ARNOLD, in selecting from his prose writings the passages* which most clearly mark and most brilliantly express his leading ideas, has not merely provided us with a number......