20 MAY 1893, page 17

Poetry.

A CRY OF DESIRE. YET one lay to the love, long, deep, and sweet, That heartens, as it hears, Before the worn tones falter, for my feet Are in the vale of years. And the night......

A Rchitecture At The Academy. [to Tin Editor Of Tii1 "

SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—The theories of your critic, "D. S. M.," are excellent, and his aspirations admirable. His personal attack on myself, except that he far overrates the......

Books.

MISS BURNEY'S " EVELINA." * Wu hear much talk about "annuals " and " perennials " nowa- days. The interest taken in old-fashioned flowering plants and shrubs is a very marked......