25 MARCH 1876, page 15

Poetry.

TO THE EMPRESS. AFT= BEN JONSON'S "QUEEN AND HUNTRESS, CHASTE AND FAIR." QUEEN and Empress,—here and there,— English pride is laid to sleep, Seated in th' Imperial chair, State......

"the Soldier Of Fortune."

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE “SPEOTITOR.1 Sin,—The question that has occurred to me on reading, in the- Spectator of Saturday, a brief notice of my play, " The Soldier of Fortune,"......

The Latest Grave Of The Abbey.

Wrrrizx her well-loved Abbey's utmost corner, Ensculptured and secluded, low she lies, Whose head at highest bent to every mourner, Whose eyes to all sad eyes. This niche is......

" The .annals Of Tacitus."

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR:'] SIR, —It is commonly better to accept criticism in silence, even when one cannot acquiesce in it. But one of the animadversions of your......

Books.

• Letters of flumphrey Prideaux, sometime Dean of Norwich. to Jolts Ellis, sotruttinu Under-Secretory of State, 1674-1722. Edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Printed for the......