15 OCTOBER 1881, page 17

Poetry.

LOOKING BACK. FAIR were the dreamful days of old, When, in the sleepy summer shade, Beneath the beeches on the wold, The shepherds lay, and gently played Music to maidens, who,......

Books.

WHITTINGTON'S LONDON.* THIS entertaining and instructive little book, which belongs to the capital series of biographies entitled "The New Plutarch," bears on its title-page the......