22 AUGUST 1891, page 19

The Newer Criticism.

(Vide letter to the Spectator, August 15th,1891.) FIE, fie, on thee, Spectator ! who The Word our fathers held for true Believing, art content to stay so ! Down, down, upon thy......

Books.

MR. LOWELL'S SERIOUS POETRY.* THE time when Mr. Lowell was growing.up towards manhood was one of the barrenest and dreariest periods in English poetry. Byron had passed like a......