1 JULY 1899, page 27

To The Stoic Within.

s well," thou Bay'st," to spurn A world will else spurn thee ; Draw in the empty hand, Shut eyes that longing tire ; Since vain it is to yearn, When most is show we see,— Air......

Books.

THE RISE OF PORTUGUESE POWER IN INDIA.* THE exploration of the ocean routes between Western Europe and the East Indies marks an important epoch in the world's history, for when......

Poetry.

A DEATHBED: JULY lsr, 18—. THIS is the very room in which she died : I know it well; and when the moonlight falls, As now it falls, upon her little bed, How white the bed......