22 APRIL 1899, page 16

Vale.

LIT= child that standest on the threshold Of the dark descent that leads—no man knows whither, Following in the footsteps of thy father, . Where the footprints lead, thou......

Books.

EARTH SCULPTURE.* HISTORY has a curious tendency to repeat itself in the realm of science-concepts as well as of politics. The earliest views of the earth regarded it as a......

Poetry.

A STAR-FANCY FOR A CHILD WREN summer nights are warm and dry, The Scorpion with his flamilig eye, Down in the South as twilight grows, Watches the lily and the rose. He sees the......