6 AUGUST 1881, page 13

Poetry.

IDYLLS OF THE ILIAD —II. TILE DEATH OF ACHILLES. * THE grey dawn glimmered, and the ebbing tide Slipped from the naked sands about the ships, And drained Scamander of its......

Mr. Bence Jones And Father O'leary.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. - 1 SIR, —In your notice of Father O'Leary's paper in the July number of the Contemporary Review, you regard his allegation "that Mr. Bence......

Books.

" WIT AND WISDOM " OF LORD BEACONSFIELD.' IF this book contains the wit and wisdom of Lord Beaconsfield, there must have been, and we have no doubt there was, at least ten times......