12 JULY 1879, page 17

English Men Of Letters.—spenser.*

OF Spenser, the "poet's poet," our knowledge is so slight, that the assured facts of his biography may be recorded in a page or two. lie was accounted a divine poet by his......

Books.

IS LIFE WORTH LIVING ?* THIS is a striking book, with a weak conclusion. Mr. Mallock would have done better to limit his essay to his real subject,— the inadequacy of any theory......