13 AUGUST 1898, page 18

Mexico Of To-day.* There Has Been A Marked Movement Among

American writers of late years to form and encourage a more just appre- ciation of the old Spanish life, which has been somewhat rudely jostled, and, in some places, supplanted,......

Poetry.

Wind on the hill-top ! Wind in the tree ! Is there aught in earth or heaven. That bindeth thee and me ? I, through the long hours, Feebly creep and crawl O'er the green smooth......

Books.

MIRABEAU.• THE difficulties which interrupt the writing of Mirabean's Life are rather artistic than historical. There is no lack of apposite material, nor are there any haunting......