23 AUGUST 1902, page 20

Books.

THE SOLOMON ISLANDS.• No spot upon the globe has had a stranger history than the Solomon Islands. Discovered by a band of valiant Spaniards in 1568, they were instantly lost......

Poetry.

ON THE WETTERHORN. (AvousT 16rw, 1902.) As grass upon the hillside, in the morning growing green, By noon is mown and withered, and the next day is not seen, Even so the strong......