14 FEBRUARY 1863, page 18

British Columbia And Vancouver Island.* British Columbia...

of which our information has hitherto been very incomplete and unsatisfactory. Hundreds of disappointed miners who are now performing a " skedaddle " from the diggings have......

Epigrams, Ancient And Modern..

MR. Boom has adopted a somewhat narrow and technical idea of the epigram. "In our own day an d our own language," he says, "an epigram is understood to mean a poem distinguished......