22 AUGUST 1908, page 18

Poetry.

THE BRUMBIES.* THERE are steeds upon many a Western plain That have never bowed to a bit or rein, That have never tightened a trace or chain. They feed in the blue grass,......

Books.

TRAGEDY OLD AND NEW.* TRAGEDY occupies the same place in literature as the symphony in music,—it is the crowning expression of a great art, summing up in itself the most varied......