23 JANUARY 1875, page 14

Gibbon And Louis Xvi.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] find the following notice in the catalogue of a Paris publisher :— "Gibbon, Histoire de la Decadence et 'de la Chute de l'Empire &main,......

Conscious Automatons.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. " ] Srn,—I should think the bulk of your readers must be weary of this conscious-automaton discussion without having become much wiser. I have,......

Criticism.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Mr. Ruskin, who has been a critic all his life, and who won his earliest and most enduring reputation as a critic of Art, has suddenly......

Church Prospects. [to The Editor Of The "spectator. "]

SIR,—Will you allow me to say, in reply to your editorial note to' my letter of last week, that it was not in the least my intention to imply that there were those wbo "doubted......