29 OCTOBER 1887, Page 15

THE DEATH OF ACHILLES.

[To THE EDITOR Or THY SPECTATOB.".1 SIII,—Your critic of Mr. Ogle's "Idylls of Ilium" doubts whether the slaying of Achilles by Apollo in aid of Faris is Homeric,— at least, he seems to doubt it. In "Iliad," xxii., 359-360, he will find that Hector prophesies this death for Achilles.—I am, Sir, Ac., I Marloes Road, W., October 22nd. A. I...LNG.