10 MARCH 1877, page 14

Poetry.

TEND thou our children, Paulus, take this care That stirs my charred bones withlingering pain ; Thy hands, unwont, must learn a mother's arts, Thy neck must bend to btuthens......

Is The Church Worth Preserving?

[TO TRH EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIII,—Your correspondents frequently state, by way of preface, that they are presuming on your usual fairness to those who differ from you. I......

Art.

POPULAR ART.—L DECORATIVE. DURING the last few years, there have come into common usage many phrases unfamiliar to our fathers, and even in some eases doubtfully comprehended by......