24 JANUARY 1891, page 22

Mr. Locker-lampson's "lyra.

ELE GANTIARUM."* WE can all tell social and occasional verse when we see it ; but where is there to be discovered a definition which can. in any true sense be described as......

America Before Columbus.*

THESE essays, though largely linguistic in their subjects and methods, have nothing to do with so-called Americanisms, as. the title their author has given himself might lead......