21 AUGUST 1880, page 15

Visual Art.

(ro TRR EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sta,—I reluctantly ask permission to reply to remarks that would seem to imply a somewhat hasty perusal on the part of your reviewer. You......

Books.

ABOUT'S "STORY OF AN HONEST MAN."* THERE is a good deal said about the advantages of a better acquaintance with foreign literature; and certainly, to such of our islanders as......

Browning's "olive."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.') Sin,—The readers of your valuable notice of this "dramatic idyll" may care to know its basis of fact. The story of Olive's boyish quarrel at......

The Medical Profession.

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE SPEOTATOR."J SIR,—The difficulty at Guy's Hospital is one of several recent events by which the position and influence of medical men have been made a......